Bycatch - Caroline Smith Pages:Default Title steeped in mystique and peppered

steeped in mystique and peppered with handed-down wisdom

meaty and umami flavours with nothing but whole food plants

and above all his overriding passion for his art

Shuster Award

best-selling author of The Energy Codes

Bycatch - Caroline Smith Pages:Default Title steeped in mystique and pepperedIn Bycatch, a new collection by the Ted Hughes Prize shortlisted poet Caroline Smith, the poems ask where personhood is when memory and language are gone. They capture the faltering years of a life gradually scraped bare by the deep sea trawler of dementia yet find amongst the isolation and sadness, moments also of clarity, epiphany and love. Whilst these poems chart deep waters, they remind us also of the enduring and miraculous bond between those