Exploring how emotional legacy can be passed on through generations, the poems in this tightly honed pamphlet range across themes of gender and mental health, time and loss. Referencing family history, art and potent places,
Lucy Anderson
explores questions of how we leave a legacy, whether in the space of an empty church or beyond death and across time and how legacy can mark identities. Legacy is a highly cohesive, accessible and intelligent debut from a distinctive emerging voice with the courage to look unflinchingly at the human condition and consider how we might break down taboo and isolation.
Extract from: 'Father Moth'
From dark oak forest you followed his procession,
single file, at night, left white silk nest,
fed--not on beach or birch--
but, drink, the streets, crawled your return,
pulled down wardrobes,
bare-handed--