I. You are still little, and your neighbour has a cat called Moonface. An impossibly beautiful creature, all languor and white fluff and huge beryl eyes, and yet, as should be expected of her kind, a sadist and a...
Birds
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Laura Theis
Laura Theis writes in her second language. Her exophonic work appears in Poetry, Oxford Poetry, Magma, Rattle, Aesthetica, and others. She was the recipient of the Society of Authors’ Arthur Welton Award, the AM Heath Prize, Oxford Brookes Poetry Prize, Mogford Prize, Poets and Players Prize, Hammond House International Literary Award, the Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize, and a Forward Prize nomination. Her Elgin-Award-nominated debut how to extricate yourself, an Oxford Poetry Library Book-of-the-Month, has won the Brian Dempsey Memorial Prize. Her 2023 collection, A Spotter's Guide for Invisible Things, has won the Live Canon Collection Prize.