Arthropod by Lydia Unsworth John Burnside Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill

Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill

the magical and mystical

A Room for the Night

He deploys an ambitious range of poetic styles and forms

by the acclaimed poet

Arthropod by Lydia Unsworth John Burnside Nuala Ní DhomhnaillLydia Unsworth's Arthropod bursts open with 'Starlight Express', a long prose poem about protection and harm, containing cannibal flowers, lecherous men, and family dynamics as constellatory and atomised as the poem. Like Selima Hill, Will Harris and Caroline Bird, Unsworth's images and associations are seductive with crystallised mystery 'Knowing is holding a field in your palm'. At its dense core, the collection orbits a divorce and single