Baby Schema by Isabel Galleymore
POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION SPRING 2024 Louise Fazackerley battlegrounds

battlegrounds

‘I watch you sweat

the collective and the individual in constant throes of untethered riffs and acerbic polemic

these are essential poems about our diasporic age

brought to recent attention when an archive recording of him reading it was broadcast by BBC Radio 4’s Poetry Please in 2016

Baby Schema by Isabel Galleymore<br><b>POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION SPRING 2024</b> Louise Fazackerley battlegrounds'Trees crawling with babies, babiesdarting through the skyor buoyed by thermal vents, babiespainted with false eyes' ('Fable') In Isabel Galleymore's second collection, the adorable other is not just an imagined future child, but also a tree frog, a weather worn statue and often the speaker herself, who dreams of quitting adulthood and an endangered world. 'Mother Earth' is less an entity to be revered than a command to care giving. Lyrics and