Losing Appetite For Existence

Katerina Anghelaki-Rookes final collection of poetry Losing Appetite for Existence is enormously cohesive each poem illustrating another aspect of losing ones taste ones appetite a theme apparent from the opening poem as if the poet wanted to get to the heart of the matter right from the start to make it clear that a large part of the tastelessness of existence her loss of appetite for it was in fact the loss of being personally aroused by her encounter with the world.