Adaptive Strategies for a Sensitive System by Kate Ireland Danez Smith Poems within Everything is Present

Poems within Everything is Present have won the Ledbury Prize

labouring bodies speaking back to the demands of work and the fictions of xenophobic politicians

critics have called his Elegies 'one of the strangest documents of the human mind'

wryly humorous and intensely humane collection probes our emotions

Adaptive Strategies for a Sensitive System by Kate Ireland Danez Smith Poems within Everything is PresentAdaptive Strategies for a Sensitive System is a lovingly disordered field guide for surviving a world that keeps turning up the brightness. Disguised in the respectable badge of a diagnostic title, this is in contrast a poetic log of being too sensitive in a society built for the perpetually unbothered. From violent mornings to dreich late nights, Kate sifts through bedrooms, public transport, supermarkets, her Grans house, the surveillance era