The Day Before by Aoife Lyall F D Reeve as the winter of 1918-1919

as the winter of 1918-1919 approaches

they spent 24 hours a day together on their sofa

There's an honesty

you'll still be secretly sick with jealousy

and settle into a velvet chaise longue to read

The Day Before by Aoife Lyall F D Reeve as the winter of 1918-1919Aoife Lyall's The Day Before beautifully captures the ordinary moments in life that crystallise in the face of crisis and threat. Focusing on the earliest weeks and months of the pandemic, these intimate and meticulous poems mark the lived experience of someone who must navigate a world she no longer understands, exploring first steps and last breaths, milestones, millstones, emigration, fly tipping and the entire world to be found in the space behind