ARGONAUT BOOKS

Toutoungi's third collection is a tragi-comic journal of grief that, out of the chaos of bereavement, her failing eyesight and eco-stress, blends poems of startling wit and hard-won joy. Reviews 'These are poems of great wit and guile, tender and smart and beautiful. If there's a family line, it's from Stevie Smith's domestic macabre or Frederick Seidel's undercuts, but Emotional Support Horse confirms Claudine Toutoungi as a remarkable talent and a one-off. I loved it.' Michael Symmons Roberts'Moving between levity and gravitas, between erudi...Read More