Skinny Dipping in Tiger Country Julia Deakin each relating to a photograph

each relating to a photograph from a different moment in his life

She lives in south London

When Booker finally snatches the girls

things to make us feel better

or might do so still

Skinny Dipping in Tiger Country Julia Deakin each relating to a photographIn her debut collection of poetry, award winning translator and novelist Maithreyi Hughes explores what it means to be vulnerable and curious in the wilderness of civilisation. Politics becomes an instinctive expression of morality; animals are fellow travellers; travel a form of detachment rather than escape. Myth and irony share a lens; belonging folds into longing. This is a fierce, daring introduction to an incisive and eloquent poetic voice,