The Laureate'S Choice 2019 Bound Collection 1 Av Greg Gilbert, Karen Smith, Louise G. Cole, Yvonne Reddick

<p>The <b><i>Laureate’s Choice</i> </b>is an annual pamphlet publication project from <b>The Poetry Business</b> working in collaboration with the Poet Laureate<b> Carol Ann Duffy</b>. This boxed set contains all four pamphlets selected by Carol Ann Duffy for 2019: </p><p><b>Greg Gilbert, </b><i><b>Love Makes a Mess of Dying</b></i><b> </b>- Examining the collision between tragedy and hope, these poems follow the struggle to make sense of the prognosis and treatment of a life-threatening disease whilst surrounded by the love and support of friends and family. With cover illustrations by the author. </p><p><b>Karen Smith, </b><i><b>Schist</b></i> - Schist is the lovechild of emotion and geology, the product of a childhood with a schizophrenic mother and an anorexic father on a council estate in Croydon. These poems travel to where the land gives way to the sea and family stability is eroded by illness and death.</p><p><b>Louise G. Cole, </b><i><b>Soft Touch</b></i> - Sharp and observant, Louise G. Cole’s poems use wry humour to balance the pathos arising from picking holes in life’s day-to-day dramas. She often finds poetry in the mundane, twisting fantasy and truth with a memorable resonance.</p><p><b>Yvonne Reddick, </b><i><b>Spikenard </b>-<b> </b>Spikenard</i> smoulders with lust and loss. These are poems of separation, assault and revenge, with violence lurking in their margins.<i><b></b></i></p>