Sleeping Through by Faith Lawrence John Phillips Yang Lian’s most personal work

Yang Lian’s most personal work to date

war and its aftermath

shocking piece like "The Gaffe" with tone and timing so perfect you wonder if you ever understood it before

12th Century)

its startling and dazzling writing asking us to be carried away as we read

Sleeping Through by Faith Lawrence John Phillips Yang Lian’s most personal workHeavenly lidos, the siren call of the Doctor Who theme tune, the tender melancholy of early motherhood all these feature in a collection of poems which listen for connections: bringing ham sandwiches together with the idea of the afterlife, bees with improbability, and which describe different ways of falling and belonging to the earth.