AUP New Poets 10

‘This is an exciting new collection of poems in the AUP New Poets series. Tessa Keenan writes poetry as a kind of lyrical essayist with the work moving between a very contemporary moment and a powerful sense of history and place that gives these moments depth and resonance. romesh dissanayake offers a different soundscape, palate and set of visual references, dropping in and out of a social media register with a very effective performativity. And Sadie Lawrence’s poems are full of movement and surprise, as adjectives become verbs, patterns are set up and broken, and details linger in the mind. She conveys the visceral, messy realities of adolescent life, along with its energy and charm, in strikingly fresh and original work.’ — Anna Jackson