Menagerie Street by Hilary Watson Deryn Rees-Jones colourist society still shaped by

colourist society still shaped by that history

and rebukes America - “Dear White America” - where every day is too often a funeral and not often enough a miracle

and poetry is the means Pattie has chosen to write herself back into existence

The effects of a stroke and stroke recovery are documented through the language of strategy and struggle

Menagerie Street by Hilary Watson Deryn Rees-Jones colourist society still shaped byMenagerie Street is a striking debut poetry collection inspired by Thrutopia, a movement where we move through future difficulty, in hope without being naive. Formally playful and emotionally generous, Hilary Watson's poems move between humour and gravity, attentive to animals, landscapes, queer desire, bodies, and forms of kinship that resist easy definition. This is a collection is full of wit, tenderness, and formal invention. Alive to the ethical