Outlandish by Jo Clement Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal — Lydia Unsworth

— Lydia Unsworth

seems like the obvious pick to bring the new Neruda into English

this collection articulates a life lived under the bed

Many poems display a compassionate concern with the suffering of Guyana’s poor

Outlandish by Jo Clement Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal — Lydia UnsworthJo Clement's first collection confronts Romantic impressions of British Gypsy ethnicity and lyrically lays them to rest. From Wordsworth to Top Gear, her poems invite us to consider notions of otherness, trespass and craft. She steps between ancient stopping places and mardy council estates to trill elegiac Romanes, English, and birdsong about witches, wild camping and Silver Cross prams. Compelled by a brutal Gypsy, Roma and Traveller diasporic