Happiness is the long-anticipated debut collection from Jack
Underwood. These bright, beguiling poems worry at the world,
surreally exploring the 'reservoir of wrongheaded questions' with
which love and death confront us. Readers will meet life's
strangeness half-way in poems where a childhood horse and recent
lover look through a photo album together; where 'sadness is a
yacht . . . an anvil dropped from heaven'; fear for a future child
is 'a fizz building in a bad grey egg'; a beef steak is 'a
question, hung in itself, about blood', and love is someone
'pausing to move a snail somewhere safer in the rain'. In the
unpredictable world of these inventive poems, visualisation becomes
an empathetic act, a means of sharing the 'fearful and forgotten
things' we lie to ourselves about. Happiness is a collection
preoccupied with the ephemerality of happiness itself, at the
ever-present possibility of its departure, and the ways we try to
grasp and keep hold of it. Self-aware and sad, daring and funny,
this is an accomplished and memorable debut from a distinct new
voice.
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