The House with Only an Attic and a Basement by Kathryn Maris Liz Berry personal engagement between writer and

personal engagement between writer and reader

She lived on the island of Lesbos around 600 BC

but displaying Meeks’ sharply observant eye

‘The book turns on the intimate… what you come away with is delight at being permitted access to this hugely talented poet’s life

This monumental new book includes significant pieces from that period

The House with Only an Attic and a Basement by Kathryn Maris Liz Berry personal engagement between writer andBut back to the summer day the spike grazed my brother's scalp: I slept beside him in his racing car bed and my father woke me and slapped my face, thinking, I assume, of sex, whereas I was already thinking about death. Urban, suburban, observant, obsessive and wickedly witty, the poems in Kathryn Maris's third book range over such subjects as parenthood, marriage, adultery, the politics of children's sports contests, female incarceration and