Annus Horribilis: Poems

A STANDOUT DEBUT COLLECTION OF POETRYAnnus Horribilis is concerned with the violence of thinking alone. The voices in these poems move through relationships family friendship external disintegration the labour of loving being loved and of caring where they are constantly confronted with the familiar turning foreign the quotidian becoming a scene of absolute hostility and where a word otherwise spoken easily becomes incommunicable. The book grapples with a (habitually futile) desire to communicate what should only be communicable-looking for some friend in language-that won't lead to misunderstanding or worse silence. It searches for a language in which thought might survive and perhaps even reach out towards others.