Dear Big Gods by Mona Arshi Michael Dickman Being Alive and Being HumanÂ

Being Alive and Being Human have introduced many thousands of new readers to contemporary poetry

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These seven instructive years highlight the making of a poet who has now subsequently achieved international acclaim as a thinker

but his poetry enrichingly alludes to and echoes the writings of many others

Dear Big Gods by Mona Arshi Michael Dickman Being Alive and Being HumanÂFollowing on from her Forward prize winning collection, Small Hands, Mona Arshi's new book continues in its lyrical and exact exploration of the aftershocks of grief. These extraordinary poems, which see Arshi continuing with her experiments with form, relocate experiences in both past and future feeling, in both the intimacies of ordinariness and the collective experience of myth. Moving and discomfiting, these poems tune, in their acute emotional