Arthropod by Lydia Unsworth Louis De Paor on Gloria: Selected Poems

on Gloria: Selected Poems

offering the same sense of humour

writing in the 8th century

these poems unsettle the boundaries between past and present

Arthropod by Lydia Unsworth Louis De Paor on Gloria: Selected PoemsLydia Unsworth's Arthropod bursts open with 'Starlight Express', a long prose poem about protection and harm, containing cannibal flowers, lecherous men, and family dynamics as constellatory and atomised as the poem. Like Selima Hill, Will Harris and Caroline Bird, Unsworth's images and associations are seductive with crystallised mystery 'Knowing is holding a field in your palm'. At its dense core, the collection orbits a divorce and single