Aquafaba by Colin Herd chatto & windus and Anansi

and Anansi

has won prizes for his versions of Vilas and of the Russian poet Mayakovsky

‘Extraordinarily inventive

tenderness and grace

Aquafaba by Colin Herd chatto & windus and AnansiAquafaba is the sappy gluey liquid that beans or chickpeas float about in, cushioning their collisions with one another in tins or jars. It takes on traces of the legumes as they fray and bump at the edges. But when enough air is introduced, this seemingly inconsequential byproduct, destined to be wasted, forms a foam with enough stability to obtain aerated structures and dizzying peaks. In this new collection by Colin Herd, poetry is figured as the