Panic Response Neil Lawrence and draw strength from giving

and draw strength from giving voice to unheard histories

Rachel and Mike begin a sexual relationship

which my mother has stuffed with live sable is

(‘For when you fall in it you will always find the biggest pile

a window there - opening up the house of Arab literature

Panic Response Neil Lawrence and draw strength from givingFrom the mercurial mind of award winning poet John McCullough comes his darkest and most experimental book to date. Panic Response puts personal and cultural anxiety under the microscope. It is full of things that shimmer, quiver and fizz: plankton glowing at low tide; brain tissue turning to glass; a basketball emerging from the waves, covered in barnacles. These are poems of uncertainty but also of hope, which move beyond the breathlessness of panic