Arthropod by Lydia Unsworth deafness that the dictator had fled

that the dictator had fled

With its ‘radical simplicity and seriousness of purpose

Tessa Lang

a nation that is still under neo-colonial rule by the US

this is a story of one life as it is unravelled and rebuilt

Arthropod by Lydia Unsworth deafness that the dictator had fledLydia Unsworth's Arthropod bursts open with 'Starlight Express', a long prose poem about protection and harm, containing cannibal flowers, lecherous men, and family dynamics as constellatory and atomised as the poem. Like Selima Hill, Will Harris and Caroline Bird, Unsworth's images and associations are seductive with crystallised mystery 'Knowing is holding a field in your palm'. At its dense core, the collection orbits a divorce and single