Arthropod by Lydia Unsworth writing process more the brain beneath the

more the brain beneath the skull

short and long fiction

’ – Kathleen Jamie & Maurice Riordan

The Buried Breath

in images from space

Arthropod by Lydia Unsworth writing process more the brain beneath theLydia Unsworth's Arthropod bursts open with 'Starlight Express', a long prose poem about protection and harm, containing cannibal flowers, lecherous men, and family dynamics as constellatory and atomised as the poem. Like Selima Hill, Will Harris and Caroline Bird, Unsworth's images and associations are seductive with crystallised mystery 'Knowing is holding a field in your palm'. At its dense core, the collection orbits a divorce and single