A collection of poems from award-winning poet, Emily Berry. Emily Berrys Dear Boy was described as a "blazing debut", winning the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2013.Stranger, Baby, its follow-up, is marked by the same sense of fantasy and play, estrangement, and edgy humor for which she has become known. But these poems delve deeper again, in their off-kilter and often agonizing encounter with childhood loss. Love, anger, tenderness, violence: all find expression in poems powered by grief's tidal undertow. This is a book of mourning, recrimination, exhilaration, and "oceanic feeling", where familiarity meets strangeness and despair becomes a kind of celebration. New collection of poetry from the editor of the Poetry Review "The loss of a mother must be something very strange", observed Sigmund Freud, a reflection that haunts this intense and powerful new book.Stranger, Baby is Emily Berry's second collection of poetry. These poems are filled with fantasy and play, estrangement, and edgy humor. Love, anger, tenderness and violence all find expression in poems powered by grief's tidal undertow. This is a book of mourning, recrimination, exhilaration, and "oceanic feeling", where familiarity meets strangeness and despair becomes a kind of celebration.
