Author Description

Product Description A vigorous collection of poems, My Life Asleep never succumbs to gloom, despite Jo Shapcott's black humor and sometimes macabre tone. This is her third collection of poetry. Review "Shapcott combines uneasy dislocations and metamorphosis with an eroticism both physical and linguistic."--The Poetry Business About the Author Jo Shapcott is the joint anthologist with Matthew Sweeney of Emergency Kit. She lives in London.