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Better Houses

Susie Wild BETTER HOUSES £8.99   Pre-order a signed copy for £8.99 and free P&P  [The Parthian summer sales is on at the moment so you can get an extra £3 off at the checkout for either Better Houses or my story collection The Art of Contraception ] This book officially launches 1 October 2017 This  lively first collection from Susie Wild introduces a poet with a nomadic spirit. She tramps with humour, love, and loss across the UK, even the globe, seeking a place to call home. 'These poems are spells whose words bewitch the ordinary and transform the objects and routines of our human world with their word-magic.'  – Gillian Clarke   'The world shifts and transforms itself in these subtly disconcerting poems: words into bees, surgical stitches into mascaraed eyelashes, a fossil oyster into a lover's toenails. The effect can be darkly sinister or exuberantly witty, but it's always new and refreshing. This is an exciting and assur