The Underlook By Helen Seymour Translation The Poem Is You will

The Poem Is You will appeal to poets

As with Seamus Heaney

Strangely Happy (2011)

also underscored by her background in journalism and broadcasting

And he shares with many of his characters a star-gazing capacity for belief

The Underlook By Helen Seymour Translation The Poem Is You willThe Underlook balances precariously between the real and the surreal. Informed by experiences of physical disability, surgery, and medical trauma, this collection articulates a life lived under the bed, at the bottom of a well, in the glances exchanged between doctors. The poems revel in the uncanny and in the power of ignored or repressed spaces, summoning us under to listen crouch down press [a] hand against the white gloss shuddering.