States of Happiness by Suzanne Batty John Burnside from ‘My Dog’

from ‘My Dog’

Collected Poems reflects Berger’s longstanding concerns with art and politics

transformative poetry which makes the miraculous seem familiar and the domestic other-worldly

in both her themes and experiments with form

There is a fierce intelligence at play here

States of Happiness by Suzanne Batty John Burnside from ‘My Dog’States of Happiness, Suzanne Battys second full length collection, begins with an extended sequence written in memory of her twin sister. This explores their relationship from shared birth to her twins early death from Friedreichs ataxia, a rare degenerative disease. Suzanne Battys gifts of empathy and imagination combine to produce a profoundly moving elegy telling the hidden story of growing up as the well twin and exploring the meaning of illness