Bath of Herbs by Emily Zobel Marshall Alan Buckley The Poet Laureate Has Gone

The Poet Laureate Has Gone to His Shed

This new collection of expert lyric poems movingly animates the characters of his childhood in County Cork

thrilling and new’ — Ella Frears

yet ambitiously experimental among the forms she uses

Bath of Herbs by Emily Zobel Marshall Alan Buckley The Poet Laureate Has GoneBath of Herbs is Emily Zobel Marshall's beautifully crafted, honest and thoughtful first collection which explores the complexity of mixed race, hybrid identities and relationships to the English and Welsh mountains, fells, rivers and shorelines from an 'othered', unmappable, positionality. It honours the lives of Black and Brown women and asks how they can reclaim space, both practically and conceptually. It celebrates and mourns the unspoken pain