Rope of Sand by Fiona Larkin Simon Smith I say that to my

I say that to my girlfriend Life

a promise (to past

Plathian interrogative voice Fletcher's poems prowl the bars and night-haunts of Madrid and London

Speaking-or rather

'Robert Wells's language is exact

Rope of Sand by Fiona Larkin Simon Smith I say that to myIn a compelling, nuanced debut, Fiona Larkin scrutinises instability and asks what we hold onto, and what we let go. Her poems, delicate and tough, consider the shifting relationships in couples, between parent and child, how a friendship is formed and broken. She searches for those languages and registers we remember, and how we might lose them, and the place of the spiritual when faith, like the tide, recedes. Sand is always equivocal, unreliable,