Ephemeron by Fiona Benson

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST SINGLE POEM The poems in Ephemeron deal with the shortlived and transitory whether its the brief urgent lives of the first section Insect Love Songs the abrupt anguished physical and emotional changes during secondary school as remembered in BoardingSchool Tales or parentings daybyday shifts through love and fear hurt and healing in Daughter Mother. The long central section Translations from the Pasiphae gathers these themes together in a bli Paperback softback