Everything is Present (Salt Modern Poets)

Poems within Everything is Present have won The Ledbury Competition, The Wigtown Prize, and were featured in The Forward Book of Poems of the Year. ‘As brave, as bravura, a performance as the ill-advised, little-known acts it celebrates, this is both a lament and a defiant affirmation of an individual’s life.’ Phillip Gross, Ledbury Prize ‘A stark and timely reminder of how there is always some level of choice when it comes to traditions and symbols, and the significant role this choice has in harming or healing our collective and individual relationships with the past.’ Roseanne Watt, Wigtown Prize Everything is Present is a mid-life coming of age tale.The back to front narrative is divided into three sections, End, Middle and Beginning.Poems explore the effect of grief and ageing and the ability of these two to alter the past as well as the present.The title comes from a Buddhist meditation referring to the non-linear nature of time as well as its gift. The first section End contains