Arthropod by Lydia Unsworth John Burnside He deploys an ambitious range

He deploys an ambitious range of poetic styles and forms

and an often understated tenderness

an attempt to acknowledge but fight back the brutal inner voice

by the acclaimed poet

Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill

Arthropod by Lydia Unsworth John Burnside He deploys an ambitious rangeLydia 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