Catherine Smith: Selected Poems

Catherine Smith''s first acclaimed collection The Butcher''s Hands was a disturbing and exciting book. Lip moves on from its grotesqueries and grand guignol to a fierce, often frantic eroticism, seen, as in the earlier book, through the language of the human body; clothed, stripped, skinned, examined with forensic detail.As in Heckmondwike, a litany of dangerous pleasure, in this book there are no...