Publisher's Synopsis
After is a heart-breaking account of the aftermath of a suicide. Simple, spare language and the use of questions allow the seismic shifts of grief and disbelief to resonate through this powerful, disquieting and sometimes harrowing, but never sentimental or self-indulgent, sequence. There is a fine line of control and grace in this poignant and deeply humane collection; an exceptional debut.
Extract from: 'Your Body'
no longer here,
cannot grasp
this altered world -
world so chasmed
by your going -
nor block the thought
of your drop:
brief flash between mirrored
sunlit towers,
roof below rushing up
to meet you.
Did you regret -
did the moments stretch
(were you lucid?)
into horror?
Or did you feel, finally,
as Icarus did when he soared -
free -
