Star / Sun / Snow is simply the most affecting poem I've read in years. The rest of the poems in this could be awful and it would still get 5 stars for that one. The other poems are also beautiful, of course; Zoë Brigley is an enormous talent and the rage and tenderness in these pages is a quiet but simmering thing, always under the surface. Other favourites are Beatitudes for the Women, My Last Beatitude, and Letter from Nemi. Haunting and visceral work and absolutely recommended.

'Nobody said how close a mother
and baby could be: as close
as teeth in the same
mouth.'