In The Lily Room by Erica Hesketh Frank O'Hara I am fascinated by those

I am fascinated by those codes because they were poetical

Love is present too

and in her continuing attention to Welsh places and names

with the poet’s own migration from Inner Mongolia to Nottingham offering a unique

’    (Ellen Dillon)

In The Lily Room by Erica Hesketh Frank O'Hara I am fascinated by thoseErica Heskeths debut collection In the Lily Room tells a story of early motherhood. It examines a new mothers journey through mental illness, her relationships with her body, her baby and other people, and the often surreal landscape of mothering, against a backdrop of a changing and uncertain world. A dreamlike birth sequence full of eels, foxes and floodwater empties onto a London postnatal ward, where reality sets in. Rudderless and anxious, the