melt by Sarah Hymas Julia Bird is said to have despaired

is said to have despaired of the world’s venality and corruption

and a reclamation of the spiritual

winner of the 2016 Edwin Morgan Poetry Award

His poetic voice is fluent and full of resounding clarity

melt by Sarah Hymas Julia Bird is said to have despairedmelt, structurally influenced by the poets work as an artistbook maker, enfolds the intimacy of the known with what is unseen, and seemingly remote. Here, Hymas creates a poetic space of ocean as an assemblage of animal, plant, plastic, mineral, technology, human and more, a book that reaches for an ecological mutuality, a reorientation of that which appears distant into a poetic proximity. And just as there is no one way to read the sea, there is no