My Reef My Manifest Array by John Wilkinson Julia Bird Liz Berry turns her distinctive

Liz Berry turns her distinctive voice to the transformative experience of new motherhood

Spit and Hiss is the fourth collection by Hull born poet Mike Watts

both as a woman and an Indian

those by the two British poets are debut collections first published in full in this book

Simon Smith has found it so

My Reef My Manifest Array by John Wilkinson Julia Bird Liz Berry turns her distinctiveIn 1487 Sir Henry Bodrugan, pursued for treason, leapt from a Cornish clifftop into a waiting boat and fled to France. Bodrugan's Leap, as the clifftop has come to be known, lies close to John Wilkinson's childhood home, and supplies the title for the central cycle of poems in My Reef My Manifest Array. That totemic image of exile feeds an interest in borders and partings that runs throughout the collection. The Cornish landscape of the poet's