Harbour Doubts by Bebe Ashley phoebe stuckes "America's favourite poet" (New York

"America's favourite poet" (New York Times) Billy Collins writes with joy and wonder about the beauty and irony of daily life

Together as never before

she doesn’t know how she could ever attend without her mami finding out

but wanting the praise anyway

and the polyphonic nature of identity

Harbour Doubts by Bebe Ashley phoebe stuckes "America's favourite poet" (New YorkWinner of the Ivan Juritz Prize 2023 Bebe Ashely's prizewinning second collection charts the poet's efforts to qualify as a British Sign Language interpreter. Intershot with enquiries into the nature of language as it is spoken and signed, how our medium of communication shapes our words, and the process of leaving and finding home, Harbour Doubts is a collection that tangles with the burning desire to communicate in the isolation of a late