All Appears Ordinary by Freya Bantiff

Extraordinary and illuminating, Freya Bantiff’s All Appears Ordinary is a winner of the 2023 New Poets’ Prize.

‘Nothing is truly ordinary in this extraordinary pamphlet, where owls are ‘light as an eyelash blown for luck’ … These poems keep the faith that language can illuminate anything – from everyday acts of love like the removal of nits from a child’s head to the extinction of a species.’ – Kim Moore