Votive Evelyn Shakir Selected and Introduced by Andrew

Selected and Introduced by Andrew Carpenter

and he was nominated for the Carnegie Medal

but of the decade

in north Wales

What she finds there triggers a journey back to a horrific event in her own childhood – an event which now threatens the present

Votive Evelyn Shakir Selected and Introduced by AndrewTurning on the drawn out thread of a relationship in freefall, the poems in Votive, the skilful and seductive second collection by Keiran Goddard, are small prayers uttered out of an ambiguous faith. They are dreams, visions, and hallucinations; the body is made a bonsai tree, the sea hisses into the spaces between the lines, the voice speaks invocations to the minute. These poems are granular things that flow freely when touched. Unapologetically