Bycatch by Caroline Smith chilean Glass is Elastic (2012)

Glass is Elastic (2012)

Heroes and Villains pays homage to the glittering royal courts and journey through ancient landscapes and perilous voyages

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Bycatch by Caroline Smith chilean Glass is Elastic (2012)Shortlisted for The Forward Prize for Best Collection 2026 A deep sea trawler, dementia destroys all life in its path: friendships, the symbiosis of family and ultimately the self. In Bycatch, a new collection by the Ted Hughes Prize shortlisted poet Caroline Smith, these poems ask where personhood is when memory and language are gone. They chart the faltering years of a life gradually scraped bare by dementia yet find amongst the isolation and