Dear Big Gods by Mona Arshi Luljeta Lleshanaku Hermes – who drift in

Hermes – who drift in and out of the poem

Over the Moon is her fifth book from Bloodaxe

the strange

of the potential for tenderness in the brutality of love and play

Dear Big Gods by Mona Arshi Luljeta Lleshanaku Hermes – who drift inFollowing 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