ARGONAUT BOOKS

In Bycatch, a new collection by the Ted Hughes Prize shortlisted-poet Caroline Smith, the poems ask where personhood is when memory and language are gone. They capture the faltering years of a life gradually scraped bare by the deep-sea trawler of dementia - yet find amongst the isolation and sadness, moments also of clarity, epiphany and love. Reviews 'In Bycatch Caroline Smith has created a remarkable journal of care and its complex narratives, composed throughout with striking clarity of image and compassionate observation. These finely resonant poems show us how the worl...Read More