Bycatch by Caroline Smith chilean This collection is an awakening

This collection is an awakening that presents the reality of loss through poems that powerfully translate a mother's emotional strife alongside her lived experience

these poems serve to make our own lives the more remarkable and memorable

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brimming with ideas and passion and sharing it all with real panache

full of fertile earth’s possibility

Bycatch by Caroline Smith chilean This collection is an awakeningShortlisted for The Forward Prize for Best Collection 2026 A deep sea trawler, dementia destroys all life in its path: friendships, the symbiosis of family and ultimately the self. In Bycatch, a new collection by the Ted Hughes Prize shortlisted poet Caroline Smith, these poems ask where personhood is when memory and language are gone. They chart the faltering years of a life gradually scraped bare by dementia yet find amongst the isolation and