Dear Big Gods by Mona Arshi Luljeta Lleshanaku The sequence conveys a strong

The sequence conveys a strong sense of places in the south of England

choosing instead to locate the place’s meaning in “all of us listening”

Myths have survived for so long because they say important things about what it means to be human

these citizens of empire were not embraced as compatriots on an equal footing

particularly concerning Cornwall

Dear Big Gods by Mona Arshi Luljeta Lleshanaku The sequence conveys a strongFollowing on from her Forward prize winning collection, Small Hands, Mona Arshi's new book continues in its lyrical and exact exploration of the aftershocks of grief. These extraordinary poems, which see Arshi continuing with her experiments with form, relocate experiences in both past and future feeling, in both the intimacies of ordinariness and the collective experience of myth. Moving and discomfiting, these poems tune, in their acute emotional