Autobiology by Keith Caddy Barbican Press though the roof is beginning

though the roof is beginning to sink

deliciously witty celebration of womanhood

Maria Laina

precise imagery

such as Nikki Giovanni and Ibi Zoboi

Autobiology by Keith Caddy Barbican Press though the roof is beginningAutobiology by Keith Caddy is a spare, direct collection that treats memory as a case file, returning to formative scenes with a cool eyed tenderness and a willingness to name what hurts. Across poems of rural childhood, school cruelty, family illness, and workaday humiliation, Caddy's writing keeps its language plain but charged, allowing images to do the work, whether a kite dying on a blood stained moor, a chicken's throat slit over a drain, or a