Path Through WoodSam Buchan Watts debut collection considers the capacity contemporary lyric poetry has to reflect social change. The many ethical dilemmas these poems enact listen in to the noise which society makes to distract itself from carceral space to questions of asylum, masculinity and the boundaries of aesthetic play. Described by the Guardian as a sceptical, serious, versatile writer, Buchan Watts variously inhabits poetic form, exposing the interplay of

inspired by her grandparents’ advice on newspapers

politically engaged and playful account of our ‘whole green world

a forest ranger who suddenly comes upon forty thousand hens

Do these explain why their only photo of Arthur is a shadow cast from behind the camera

translating fiendishly tricky

concentrating on fiction and travel writing – the latter has taken her to more than thirty countries

her work has been commissioned by venues including St Paul’s Cathedral and Battersea Arts Centre

From this imaginative core

She spent much of the war in Beverley

Who Writes This Crap

Ian La Frenais

Levin's poetic voice – mordant