Scottish poet Morag Anderson explores relationships and the damage people can do to each other in her debut chapbook: concealed violence, love and everything in between.
Sample Poem: Paterfamilias
When the breadth of your back is no more than narrative beneath the tailored twill of your shirt,
when your fingers, gone to driftwood, rattle and clack against the ancestral crest of old gold,
when you cannot rise to greet the changing seasons that slant across your vaulted ceiling,
when cataracts cloud the clarified sky and your intended ascension seems less assured,
may your daughters labour with language, give birth to books that punctuate the end of your line.
