What Are You After? by Josephine Corcoran James Womack poignant and idiosyncratic poetry from

poignant and idiosyncratic poetry from four earlier prize-winning collections

Shortlisted for The Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry First Collection Prize 2017

warm-hearted guide to the English landscape

loss and discovery

a work which expresses the heart-sickening persistence and proliferation of beauty after Hiroshima

What Are You After? by Josephine Corcoran James Womack poignant and idiosyncratic poetry fromJosephine Corcorans inventive and unflinching debut poetry collection asks us to consider what it is were really here for. Bold and unsentimental, her remarkable poems trace the lifelines of where weve been and where were going to, and they arent afraid to ask difficult questions of where we are now. Corcorans dexterity allows her to get under the skin of each poem, and to explore other lives with the same attentiveness and concision she brings to her