Arthropod by Lydia Unsworth Louis De Paor Senior has long been recognised

Senior has long been recognised as a skilful and evocative storyteller but what this book shows is the consistency and range of her achievement

thousands of essays and numerous drafts and fragments survive

Each poem is paired with Padraig's illuminating commentary that offers personal anecdotes and generous insights into the content of the poem

these poems unsettle the boundaries between past and present

Arthropod by Lydia Unsworth Louis De Paor Senior has long been recognisedLydia 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