The Underlook By Helen Seymour Leonardo Boix their secrets and their hopes

their secrets and their hopes

ranging from Gocky-Wock the crocodile to Sting-A-Ling the scorpion

The poems that make up the book’s opening sequence

Several of the poets in this anthology collaborate with other artists and this engagement is evident as the poems speak to each other across the collection

' – Jackie Kay

The Underlook By Helen Seymour Leonardo Boix their secrets and their hopesThe Underlook balances precariously between the real and the surreal. Informed by experiences of physical disability, surgery, and medical trauma, this collection articulates a life lived under the bed, at the bottom of a well, in the glances exchanged between doctors. The poems revel in the uncanny and in the power of ignored or repressed spaces, summoning us under to listen crouch down press [a] hand against the white gloss shuddering.