Small Pointed Things by Erica McAlpine Jericho Brown Ritchie's 2014 collection of deft

Ritchie's 2014 collection of deft short poems that illuminate his life in Japan and on Arran

this book celebrates and gives voice to experiences rooted in the region that have largely lain at the margins

as everything collapses around her

My Secret Life is the first translation of Krisztina Tóth's poetry into English

quotations from writers and loved ones interweave with fragmented narration and the intervention of roving macaques – so that not just gender and genre and sickness are queered

Small Pointed Things by Erica McAlpine Jericho Brown Ritchie's 2014 collection of deftPublished 24th April 2025. Punctuated by rhyme and shaped by traditional poetic forms, the poems in Small Pointed Things take up the themes of marriage, motherhood, and family life, distilling everyday occurrences into moments of self discovery. Poignant and funny in equal measure, many of these poems address human concerns comically reimagined through the analogous lives of plants and animalsfrom snowdrops to love lies bleeding, manatees to warthogs,