Head On

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

From the direct trajectory of their first collection, Straight Ahead , Clare Shaw's second collection Head On turns an unflinching gaze into startling new territories. Structured by interweaving themes of political and personal conflict, the book begins and ends with the recurrent necessity of speaking out. And this is a book which speaks in equal measures, in precise and uncompromising language, about love and tenderness; violence and brutality.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• I do not believe in silence (p. 9)
• It could have been (p. 11)
• Conversations with X and Y (p. 13)
• Jude got an HGV licence (p. 19)
• Going going (p. 21)
• Cupboard (p. 23)
• French lesson (p. 24)
• Ewe (p. 25)
• Night (p. 27)
• Tree (p. 28)
• Street Poetry (p. 30)
• U (p. 37)
• Recording crime (p. 38)
• This isn't (p. 40)
• The no baby poem (p. 41)
• You (p. 42)
• Not baby, nor boy (p. 43)
• You took a tumble (p. 44)
• Vow (p. 46)
• The Lesbian Guide to Conception (p. 48)
• Ewe in several parts (p. 51)
• In the space of that year (p. 57)
• She's waited half her life to write this (p. 59)
• A withered brown flower takes on new colour (p. 60)
• Ocixem (p. 62)
• Irreversible (p. 64)
• You'd start with the page (p. 70)