Small Hands by Mona Arshi Swimming Pool the poems here are certainly

the poems here are certainly as deserving to form part of the poet’s canon as any heretofore published collections

that comprise our living tradition

Praise for Hollie McNish

the scattered village and the lone house

Small Hands by Mona Arshi Swimming Pool the poems here are certainlyWinner of the 2015 Forward Prize for Best First Collection Mona Arshis debut collection, 'Small Hands', introduces a brilliant and compelling new voice. At the centre of the book is the slow detonation of grief after her brothers death but her work focuses on the whole variety of human experience: pleasure, hardship, tradition, energised by language which is in turn both tender and risky. Often startling as well as lyrical, Arshis poems resist fixity;