What It's Like to Be Alive Yang Lian ‘The poet and novelist Forrest

‘The poet and novelist Forrest Gander

survives in notebook drafts to give a clear sense of its shape

He is the recipient of The May Sarton Award from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

perception and memory in And You

What It's Like to Be Alive Yang Lian ‘The poet and novelist ForrestPBS Special Commendation Autumn 2016 Deryn Rees Joness new book, What Its Like to Be Alive: Selected Poems, marks a mid career milestone in the life of this highly acclaimed writer. From the poems written in her teens and early twenties included in her exciting debut The Memory Tray to her most recent exploration of time and grief, we see the arc of development in her writing over twenty five years as she visits and revisits the concerns that are the