The Fourth Sister by Laura Scott #valentines ‘Expect screenshots of Kate Baer’s

‘Expect screenshots of Kate Baer’s poetry to dominate the WhatsApp chats this summer

With a strong ecological focus

a translator’s afterword by Brian Holton

explores how we can be fully alive in language even in the depths of sorrow

he and his family went into hiding in Florence where they escaped detection until the Allied liberation

The Fourth Sister by Laura Scott #valentines ‘Expect screenshots of Kate Baer’sLaura Scott's second collection, The Fourth Sister, is a book of unusual love poems. It features an assorted cast: lovers and sisters, but also parents and children, the living and the dead, birds and trees, painters, playwrights and their characters, a godfather who married the wrong man and a godmother who was surely a spy. The book's energy flows out into other lives, discovering vital connections and the gaps between them. Scott writes as a poet