The Room Between Us by Denise Saul
PBS Summer Recommendation 2022 Marc Swan with poems written in other

with poems written in other languages alongside the translations

‘Arguably the most distinctive truth teller to emerge in British poetry…Despite her thematic preoccupations

but it also shows the power of poetry in celebrating the ordinary miracle

The poet’s failure to write “a real love poem” and a childhood memory of near-accidental loss of eyesight are both

The Room Between Us by Denise Saul <b><br>PBS Summer Recommendation 2022</b> Marc Swan with poems written in otherIn her debut collection, Denise Saul explores family and identity as she tells the story of a mother's illness and subsequent aphasia, and a daughter's ongoing role as carer. At the heart of their relationship is an awareness of the inadequacies of language to name painful experiences as together they start to know the world afresh. Deeply affecting, the book finds a space for both the extraordinary and the ordinary, balancing all that is between.