Absence by Ali Lewis Yousif M. Qasmiyeh poems of praise in which

poems of praise in which the spiritual and the tangible are not remote but intimate

Janet Lees

In 2015 she was highly commended in the Philip Larkin East Riding Poetry Competition

following her own unique path

Absence by Ali Lewis Yousif M. Qasmiyeh poems of praise in whichAbsence, the third title in CHEERIO's acclaimed poetry series, is a book about nothing. Or nothings: losses, vacua, gaps. From the desolation at the heat death of the universe to the impassable distance between two people talking, and from the trust exercise of walking in darkness to experiments on the vacuum, Absence searches for what's missing and what we never had. Starting with the problem of how to represent that that isn't there, and ending with