The Butterfly House by Kathryn Bevis Hannah Lowe enabling me to distance myself

enabling me to distance myself as well as to comprehend the connection with the tradition I was brought up in

While resident in England in the 1950s and ’60s

The poems in Winter Trees were written in the last nine months of Sylvia Plath’s life

and humour

The Butterfly House by Kathryn Bevis Hannah Lowe enabling me to distance myselfFollowing her much celebrated pamphlet, Flamingo, Kathryn Beviss debut, The Butterfly House, tells the story of a life before and after a late stage cancer diagnosis. These poems examine both life and death, encompassing experiences, terrible and sublime, as in her Forward Prize shortlisted poem, My body tells me shes filing for divorce. The collection, divided into two sections, After and Before, contrasts the ghost train of diagnosis, its spooks and