Every Little Sound by Ruby Robinson Michael Murphy Memorial Prize 2017 people vanish on journeys

people vanish on journeys

unsettling observations

love and family

changing and discovering new selves to add to our own messy stores

Every Little Sound by Ruby Robinson Michael Murphy Memorial Prize 2017 people vanish on journeysDrawing from neuroscience on the idea of 'internal gain', an internal volume control which helps us amplify and focus on quiet sounds in times of threat, danger or intense concentration, Ruby Robinson's brilliant debut introduces a poet whose work is governed by a scrupulous attention to the detail of the contemporary world. Moving and original, her poems invite us to listen carefully and use ideas of hearing and listening to explore the legacies of