Significant Wow Sophie Hughes

Significant Wow Sophie HughesFollowing her Laureate Choice Pamphlet The Day of the Flying Ants, Emily Cotterills debut collection Significant Wow is delivered with dry wit, fizzing with humour and inventiveness. Her subjects range from celebrity culture (Blondie, David Bowie, Michael Sheen) to the class system (Money in your mouth like an accident) to reservations about parenthood in A Speculative Script for Motherhood. Here is a surreal mixture of feral hogs, terrariums, the

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With her delightful artwork and enchanting words

of mental fracturing and its corollary: the exuberant performance of the self

Written as a daily sonnet throughout the first lockdown

history and politics

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a great awareness for detail

rebellious

Roderick Walcott

Alice in Winterland is the story of a strange and subversive wonderland

travelling across the Atlantic with meagre resources

linguistic metamorphosis and variation made him a sort of ‘poet’s poet’