a suitcaseful of dog by Sue Vickerman Bill Manhire The reader might be justified

The reader might be justified in thinking that the M in the title of Colette Bryce's new poetry collection could stand for Mortality

is a lyric engagement of voice

and Mexican poet Rogelio Guedea

art-making

a suitcaseful of dog by Sue Vickerman Bill Manhire The reader might be justifiedSue Vickerman's a suitcaseful of dog is a sharp, darkly funny, and unsentimentally lyrical collection that captures life's absurdities and devastations with equal intensity. Moving between acerbic social observation and moments of piercing emotional depth, Vickerman's poems traverse loss, memory, and the strange rituals of everyday survival. Whether recounting a disastrous dog sitting, navigating the indignities of ageing, or unpicking the quiet