Cuckoo by Nichola Deane Tishani Doshi Brown’s poetic concerns are both

Brown’s poetic concerns are both broad and intimate

Douglas Dunn has won the Somerset Maugham Award

A series of short poems anchored by an essay that speaks directly to Lorde’s journal entries and personal reflections on cancer

the familiar and the strange in poems which cast a sharp eye over their subject matter and return with wry

Filled with familiar favourites and new discoveries

Cuckoo by Nichola Deane Tishani Doshi Brown’s poetic concerns are bothNichola Deanes rich and sensuous poems may open with a plainspoken line or a recognisable surface, but they dwell only briefly in the familiar actual. Her syntax and image making both equally bold bring the world to us in new and compelling guises. These are poems of darkness and delight alive to sensation and feeling, and open to the urgency of beauty. Katharine Towers Nichola Deanes imagination has a long reach that pulls the unexpected into line