Outlandish by Jo Clement Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal he remains the Vermeer of

he remains the Vermeer of American poetry

this collection articulates a life lived under the bed

shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize) and City of Departures (Carcanet

like a person who cannot sleep and stares and stares all night at a blank wall

' – Sean O’Brien

Outlandish by Jo Clement Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal he remains the Vermeer ofJo Clement's first collection confronts Romantic impressions of British Gypsy ethnicity and lyrically lays them to rest. From Wordsworth to Top Gear, her poems invite us to consider notions of otherness, trespass and craft. She steps between ancient stopping places and mardy council estates to trill elegiac Romanes, English, and birdsong about witches, wild camping and Silver Cross prams. Compelled by a brutal Gypsy, Roma and Traveller diasporic