Placebo by Claire Collison Sarah Crossan    with the

      with the tie I bought you

in its way

early doors and last orders poems

written by a wide variety of poets

the poems in John Kelly’s debut collection reveal an author at home with both the stand-alone lyric and the longer

Placebo by Claire Collison Sarah Crossan    with theClaire Collisons Placebo is the real thing: a mellifluous set of poems, drawing the reader along in its flowing brilliance. The fluidity of the body in water, and the fluids the body contains and exudes mirror each other in poems that are sensual and uncompromising. There are intriguing encounters with both others and herself, the poets eye ever alert in waiting rooms and clinics, on journeys past and present, and, exultantly, whilst wild swimming.