Dear Big Gods by Mona Arshi Michael Dickman Being Alive and Being HumanÂ

Being Alive and Being Human have introduced many thousands of new readers to contemporary poetry

a reclamation of stolen ancestors

like her researches

devastating and enduring

The Guardian described Terror

Dear Big Gods by Mona Arshi Michael Dickman Being Alive and Being HumanÂFollowing on from her Forward prize winning collection, Small Hands, Mona Arshi's new book continues in its lyrical and exact exploration of the aftershocks of grief. These extraordinary poems, which see Arshi continuing with her experiments with form, relocate experiences in both past and future feeling, in both the intimacies of ordinariness and the collective experience of myth. Moving and discomfiting, these poems tune, in their acute emotional