Soft Targets by Deborah Landau Grace Nichols but it also shows the

but it also shows the power of poetry in celebrating the ordinary miracle

self-nominated President of Planet Earth

and eventually moves back to the city

Fruitcake brings together four poem sequences about motherhood by ‘this brilliant lyricist of human darkness’ (Fiona Sampson)

Soft Targets by Deborah Landau Grace Nichols but it also shows theDeborah Landaus fourth book of poetry, Soft Targets, draws a bulls eye on humanitys vulnerable flesh and corrupted world. In this ambitious lyric sequence, fear of annihilation expands beyond the self to an endangered planet on which all inhabitants are soft targets. Her melancholic examinations recall lifes uncanny ability to transform ordinary places subways, cafs, street corners into sites of intense significance that weigh heavily on the modern