Middle Child by Annie Muir Scott Tyrrell searching for the freedom and

searching for the freedom and the words to reclaim human and earthly connections

Alfie Piper has six weeks of summer - and nothing left to lose

with wry humour

avoiding the chair where they fucked

To the crystalline abstractions that Rushmer inherits from French poetry is added Taoist-inspired spirituality and the influence of Chinese and Japanese calligraphy in an amalgam of great beauty

Middle Child by Annie Muir Scott Tyrrell searching for the freedom andMiddle Child by Annie Muir is a book of sharp, funny, quietly brutal recognitions, where the everyday turns uncanny and the self keeps slipping between roles, versions, and borrowed scripts. Through poems that riff on Frankenstein, pop culture, pub lore, found images and borrowed forms, Muir writes the middle child's sensibility as a kind of heightened surveillance, noticing how bodies are appraised, threatened, desired, marketed, and made to perform.