Mouth by Mona Arshi
Poetry Book Society Choice Autumn 2025 Jean Sprackland plumbing sorrow’s depths even as

plumbing sorrow’s depths even as it stumbles upon solace

this ‘secular mystic with the lugubrious tongue’ (Independent on Sunday) has attracted a dedicated readership: the TLS called him the best new poet published by Bloodaxe

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Mouth by Mona Arshi<br><b>Poetry Book Society Choice Autumn 2025</b> Jean Sprackland plumbing sorrow’s depths even asPublished 17th July 2025. 'Delicately lethal; sharp eyed and tender' Preti Taneja, author of We That Are Young 'Quick before the story ebbs away. There are things I need to tell you' A work of great strength and equal delicacy, Mouth transports us to a world where violence hangs in the air, where beauty, pity and cruelty intertwine. The sequence at its heart, Palace, takes the overlooked women from the edges of Greek tragedy and places them centre