Never never never come back - Kirsten Irving

Don't go over the hill, or look too long in the well, or go carousing with strangers, or you'll never never never come back. With the haunting quality of nursery rhymes but the complexity of a dark and smoky wine, these poems brood on absence and abandonment, outcasts and anomalies, monstrosity and mistakes. At the heart of the collection are a suite of tightly focused, often impressionistic character studies ranging from cannibals to schoolgirls, but Irving also finds space in the shadows for deft engangements with popular and literary culture.