Menagerie / Cheryl Pearson

Menagerie is a collection of poems by Cheryl Pearson. With illustrations by Amy Evans.

“I light for the den of hindleggers.The all-on-ups who flummox and fussat our slinkings-in. Keepers of cluckerswho make good our bellies, whose blood-beaters patter like rain under feathers.
I follow my teeth to the red-to-come,follow my own gold lights over grass.
Oh, bloodsmell! Oh, flush of rust! A floodto loosen, a feast of salt when I open.”

Awarded the 2020 Poetry Book Society Autumn Pamphlet Choice

Page count: 36 / Illustrations: 4

Publication date: 22nd May 2020

Paperback ISBN 978-1-912915-38-5