The Day Before by Aoife Lyall Yang Lian Cuckoo is very sensory and

Cuckoo is very sensory and very spacious

which is characterised by its passive

the realm of the dead and the lives of others: cosmonauts swim in distant space

the sonnets were then chewed for the 15 minutes her lips were said to move after decapitation

The Day Before by Aoife Lyall Yang Lian Cuckoo is very sensory andAoife Lyall's The Day Before beautifully captures the ordinary moments in life that crystallise in the face of crisis and threat. Focusing on the earliest weeks and months of the pandemic, these intimate and meticulous poems mark the lived experience of someone who must navigate a world she no longer understands, exploring first steps and last breaths, milestones, millstones, emigration, fly tipping and the entire world to be found in the space behind