Absence by Ali Lewis Yousif M. Qasmiyeh enfolds the intimacy of the

enfolds the intimacy of the known with what is unseen

following her own unique path

music and formal invention

In 2015 she was highly commended in the Philip Larkin East Riding Poetry Competition

Cath Nichols

Absence by Ali Lewis Yousif M. Qasmiyeh enfolds the intimacy of theAbsence, the third title in CHEERIO's acclaimed poetry series, is a book about nothing. Or nothings: losses, vacua, gaps. From the desolation at the heat death of the universe to the impassable distance between two people talking, and from the trust exercise of walking in darkness to experiments on the vacuum, Absence searches for what's missing and what we never had. Starting with the problem of how to represent that that isn't there, and ending with