Spit Valve by Eve Ellis

A dead family picnics on a riverbank. A doll becomes a human lung. Tinged with menace and the uncanny, the poems in Spit Valve ask: how can we live alongside an unspeakable past? Eve Ellis's vivid worlds of lost girls, claws, throats, ice and Americana are intricately conjured here with linguistic bravura and beguiling skill.