Lairs by Judy Brown George Herbert Unexplained violences and strange metamorphoses

Unexplained violences and strange metamorphoses take shape in the ‘glowering dusk’

Zimbabwean poet Togara Muzanenhamo's third collection captures events and stories told through the twentieth century

'Petrucci's adaptations are a delight to read

'A lovely book

and to the people forging difficult lives and finding magic within it

Lairs by Judy Brown George Herbert Unexplained violences and strange metamorphosesThis is a third collection from Forward Prize nominated poet, Judy Brown, following her well received debut (Loudness, 2011) and second book, (Crowd Sensations, 2016). Lairs brings together something primal and secret the lair as haven for a wild or feral animal with the poem framed as a mathematical equation. In physical and mathematical terms, the lair is a kind of nest, a beautiful accumulation of dense detail. This tension of order and disorder in