The Very Selected: Michael Laskey Elizabeth-Jane Burnett this is an emotional blast

this is an emotional blast of a book’ – Jackie Kay

Jordi Doce

Seren is honoured by our long association with the Welsh poet Tony Curtis and we are proud to be publishing

Thematically the poems build on Burrows’s eccentric childhood in a vanished but vividly reimagined

Many of the poems were written during a period of retreat along Ireland’s south-west coast

The Very Selected: Michael Laskey Elizabeth-Jane Burnett this is an emotional blastThis pamphlet features work from Michael Laskeys five previous collections, the most recent of which are Weighing the Present (smith doorstop, 2014) and The Man Alone: New & Selected Poems (2008). His first two collections were Poetry Book Society Recommendations: Thinking of Happiness (Peterloo, 1991) and The Tightrope Wedding (smith doorstop, 1999), which was also shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize.