Philip Levine's Good Ear 2018: (Thumbprint Pocket Book)

A cascade of wordplay rings throughout this new Thumbprint collection from Lisa Kelly. Taking her single-sided deafness, acute political observations and love of language as themes for many of these fierce but tender poems, this collection examines our own expectations and transforms them with intelligence, honesty and at times an unexpected humour. How close, if notes are missed, is melody to malady...