All the Prayers in the House by Miriam Nash Simon Armitage all flesh and no bones

all flesh and no bones / but for the floating knuckle / of the honeycomb / attesting to the nature of the struggle'

Harrold himself

an exuberant play of words between the fire and tremors

The volatile and tactile realities and delusions of being in the world direct much of the language’s traffic here

LGBT art and politics

All the Prayers in the House by Miriam Nash Simon Armitage all flesh and no bonesRunner up for the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award 2016 Miriam Nash spent her early years on the Isle of Erraid off the west coast of Scotland, where Robert Louis Stevensons family once worked as lighthouse engineers. Voices of the island echo through her first collection, All the Prayers in the House, which holds at its heart the rupture and re imagining of a family. Bold, honest, playful and inventive, the collection travels far from its coastal