Nina Mingya Powles
and lives in London where he collects other exiles
A regular performer atliterary festivals in the UK and around the world in a career than is now entering its third decade
‘The book turns on the intimate… what you come away with is delight at being permitted access to this hugely talented poet’s life
She lived on the island of Lesbos around 600 BC
The House with Only an Attic and a Basement by Kathryn Maris Liz Berry Nina Mingya PowlesBut back to the summer day the spike grazed my brother's scalp: I slept beside him in his racing car bed and my father woke me and slapped my face, thinking, I assume, of sex, whereas I was already thinking about death. Urban, suburban, observant, obsessive and wickedly witty, the poems in Kathryn Maris's third book range over such subjects as parenthood, marriage, adultery, the politics of children's sports contests, female incarceration and