I am Not Light - Softcover

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Manchester poet Louise Machen explores the troubled emotional undercurrents of life with a full-throttle poetics in this Forward Prize-nominated poetry collection, I am Not Light.

Machen’s debut poetry collection burns with betrayal, pulses with love, and fights with grief, at every turn. As readers, we are taken to the ocean’s edge – to a sense of true escape from all-consuming despair.

“one of the most exciting contemporary poets I have read”

Wendy Allen, author of Portrait in Mustard


“there is a drive and dynamism in her poetry”

Briony Collins, author of Blame it on Me

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“these poems know ‘impossible depths / and hope of a handhold'“

John McAuliffe, author of Next Door


“It is in this magic that Machen manages to speak to the deepest parts of our subconsciousness”

Stuart McPherson, author of End Ceremonies

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