a suitcaseful of dog

<p>Sue Vickerman's <em>a suitcaseful of dog</em> is a sharp darkly funny and unsentimentally lyrical collection that captures life's absurdities and devastations with equal intensity. Moving between acerbic social observation and moments of piercing emotional depth Vickerman's poems traverse loss memory and the strange rituals of everyday survival. Whether recounting a disastrous dog-sitting navigating the indignities of ageing or unpicking the quiet violences of family and relationships her language is crisp unsparing and rich with wit. <em>a suitcaseful of dog</em> is poetry that doesn't look away-bold pragmatic and bristling with intelligence.  </p>