Apricot by Katie O'Pray Karen Smith the economy of poetry can

the economy of poetry can communicate the most complex of emotions

entering this new world with bated breath

Christina Thatcher gives a searing answer: it is to be scarred

are evoked as windows on this world

and cultures of sexual objectification

Apricot by Katie O'Pray Karen Smith the economy of poetry canApricot is a devastating debut from one of the UKs brightest and most fascinating poets, written with the urgency of someone who knows they might not make it through the weekend. Katie OPrays is a highly articulate poetics, kicking against the language of convention that would seek to limit us. The improvisational vocabulary at play here engenders both a developed identity and a young identity continuously being made, as each section of the book