Glue Books is built around a series

is built around a series of family photographs

Eliot Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award in 2003

including the text of two poems in particular - 'Spain 1937' and 'September 1

especially Africa and India’ – Peter Forbes

they seethe with incipient violence

Glue Books is built around a seriesGlue (the book) expands on the true life script of Louises first two meetings with her birth mother, three decades after being put up for adoption. This extended remix, features outstanding poems and vivid prose, retelling a childhood shuttled from one carer to another. Clear eyed, affecting, witty and engaging, Glue is often disturbing but is also ultimately life affirming. Louise grew up in care from the age of nine and Glue celebrates both her