Bath of Herbs by Emily Zobel Marshall Alan Buckley The Poet Laureate Has Gone

The Poet Laureate Has Gone to His Shed

Be they personal myths or legends of entire nations’ violence

sharing the feeling of invisibility that comes when we are no longer standing in love's sight

Walking is a fresh departure

Bath of Herbs by Emily Zobel Marshall Alan Buckley The Poet Laureate Has GoneBath of Herbs is Emily Zobel Marshall's beautifully crafted, honest and thoughtful first collection which explores the complexity of mixed race, hybrid identities and relationships to the English and Welsh mountains, fells, rivers and shorelines from an 'othered', unmappable, positionality. It honours the lives of Black and Brown women and asks how they can reclaim space, both practically and conceptually. It celebrates and mourns the unspoken pain