Soft Targets by Deborah Landau Grace Nichols With characteristic variety

With characteristic variety

Sometimes a Single Leaf

Fruitcake brings together four poem sequences about motherhood by ‘this brilliant lyricist of human darkness’ (Fiona Sampson)

Archaeologies and soundscapes are carefully excavated in language that sparks at every turn

like ‘spirit’/ and lightly placed/ unspeakable things

Soft Targets by Deborah Landau Grace Nichols With characteristic varietyDeborah Landaus fourth book of poetry, Soft Targets, draws a bulls eye on humanitys vulnerable flesh and corrupted world. In this ambitious lyric sequence, fear of annihilation expands beyond the self to an endangered planet on which all inhabitants are soft targets. Her melancholic examinations recall lifes uncanny ability to transform ordinary places subways, cafs, street corners into sites of intense significance that weigh heavily on the modern