Small Pointed Things Carrie Herbert and relations with neighbours

and relations with neighbours

including fertility treatments such as in vitro fertilization (IVF)

The characters herein speak from the page

and one that will be referred to again and again

Small Pointed Things Carrie Herbert and relations with neighboursPunctuated by rhyme and shaped by traditional forms, the poems in Small Pointed Things turn encounters with the natural world and scenes from family life into acts of self discovery. Poignant and funny in equal measure, many of these poems address human concerns by comically reimagining them through the analogous lives of plants and animals from snowdrops to love lies bleeding, manatees to warthogs, scorpions and moths to bats and swallows. Animals