Stranger, Baby

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Author: Berry, Emily

Literature & literary studies

Published on 2 February 2017 by Faber & Faber in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 72 pages
187 x 128 x 7 | 98g

The powerful new collection from award-winning poet, Emily Berry. Emily Berry’s Dear Boy was described as a ‘blazing debut’, winning the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2013. Stranger, Baby, its follow-up, is marked by the same sense of fantasy and play, estrangement and edgy humour for which she has become known. But these poems delve deeper again, in their off-kilter and often painful encounter with childhood loss. This is a book of mourning, recrimination, exhilaration and ‘oceanic feeling’: ‘A meditation on a want that can never be answered.’