Gold Light Shining by Bebe Ashley  Mark Eisner as if to emphasise her

as if to emphasise her poems' gentle refusal of existing phrases

And the everyday mysteries

the well-known English letter cutter

even threatening presence

how quiet must a voice be in order to be heard

Gold Light Shining by Bebe Ashley  Mark Eisner as if to emphasise herWithin five minutes, I knew I loved the stranger in my head. In her debut collection of poetry, Bebe Ashley spins gold from the detritus of the internet. A landscape often depicted as a wasteland is illuminated in poems that explore celebrity, obsession, sexuality, coming of age, and that charismatic enigma, Harry Styles. Inspired by sources as diverse as Styless track listings, Scandi webseries Skam, and One Direction newsletters, Ashley spins us