Nowhere Near As Safe As A Snake In Bed by Susie Wilson #Winter2022 The collection ends with a

The collection ends with a series of elegies for the poet's father: in the face of despair

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and offer an appealing mixture of seriousness and humor

means collage: ‘then us placed side-by-side as if in lyric we

to which the poet finds she belongs: 'Language is my home

Nowhere Near As Safe As A Snake In Bed by Susie Wilson #Winter2022 The collection ends with aWhere else could you expect to encounter a gene therapy doctor keeping clouds of butterfly facts and such strange bedfellows as the God Apollo and Rabbie Burns mice, T Rex and a Banana Circus, Emily Dickinson and NASA, two goldfinches as a charm and a shark in a Sheffield swimming pool? Winner of the Disabled Poets Prize 2024, Susie Wilsons debut pamphlet collection *Nowhere Near As Safe As A Snake In Bed *charts the painful absurdities of living with