The Day Before by Aoife Lyall F D Reeve you'll still be secretly sick

you'll still be secretly sick with jealousy

Giddy joy was followed by disillusion

they spent 24 hours a day together on their sofa

its obverse sides and its cyclical rhythms

The Day Before by Aoife Lyall F D Reeve you'll still be secretly sickAoife Lyall's The Day Before beautifully captures the ordinary moments in life that crystallise in the face of crisis and threat. Focusing on the earliest weeks and months of the pandemic, these intimate and meticulous poems mark the lived experience of someone who must navigate a world she no longer understands, exploring first steps and last breaths, milestones, millstones, emigration, fly tipping and the entire world to be found in the space behind