A deep-sea trawler, dementia destroys all life in its path: friendships, the symbiosis of family and ultimately the self. In Bycatch, a new collection by the Ted Hughes Prize shortlisted-poet Caroline Smith, these poems ask where personhood is when memory and language are gone. They chart the faltering years of a life gradually scraped bare by dementia yet find amongst the isolation and sadness moments of epiphany and joy.
| ISBN: | 9781916760288 |
| Publication date: | 9th October 2025 |
| Author: | Caroline Smith |
| Publisher: | Nine Arches Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
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Poetry by individual poets |