Mephistopheles by CD Boyland Swimming Pool Five Fifty-Five is Maura Dooley's

Five Fifty-Five is Maura Dooley's first new collection since The Silvering (2016)

as we slip our earthly moorings and follow the circling shoal of sea voices into a mesh of sound and light and water – fluid

This bundle includes the 5 shortlisted titles for Best Collection and the 5 shortlisted titles for The Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection

Midway through life’s journey

Mephistopheles by CD Boyland Swimming Pool Five Fifty-Five is Maura Dooley'sTime to get acquainted with your demons. In the poetry of CD Boyland, they appear in years, days, algorithms, doubles, sickness, fossil fuels and factories. We travel back in time to The Tavern where Marlowe & Goethe shoot daggers at each other and disagree about the fate of Faust. We are called to listen. This collection trades in seven sins: one being the lust for candid selfies; another being sloth, the sin of lying like a snowdrift up against