Small Hands by Mona Arshi Swimming Pool In her third full-length collection

In her third full-length collection 'Blood Child'

now / listen: / hang on / keep your silence / until the words / ripen / in you

’ Fiona Sampson

In 1992 he was a UK Arts Council Visiting Writer-in-Residence at the South Bank Centre

Small Hands by Mona Arshi Swimming Pool In her third full-length collectionWinner of the 2015 Forward Prize for Best First Collection Mona Arshis debut collection, 'Small Hands', introduces a brilliant and compelling new voice. At the centre of the book is the slow detonation of grief after her brothers death but her work focuses on the whole variety of human experience: pleasure, hardship, tradition, energised by language which is in turn both tender and risky. Often startling as well as lyrical, Arshis poems resist fixity;