A highly anticipated first poetry collection that israw and warm and human.

In this debut poetry collection, Sophie van Waardenberg considers girlhood and grief, love and its loss, distance and the return home, including at its heart a sequence of emotionally raw ' Cremation Sonnets' . In its essence, this collection is the poet exploring ' goodness' ' I am unbegrudging. I am the openest pair of arms', she tells us. ' I am a large dirty lake, a tepid naughty heart.'