Liz Almond's second collection YELP! (which oddly enough uses the word 'almond' in three poems) is a series of meditations, some of them verging on the austere. The opening poems explore the distractions and attractions of solitude:

before drawing the reader into more disturbing territory, via a sequence of higher-than-bird's-eye poems. Almond has had the clever idea of naming poems after satellites, and the resulting sequence of seven provides the most memorable images in this collection...

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