Eating Air Dennis Tomlinson Why I Write Poetry and

Why I Write Poetry and How to be a Poet – and is edited by Deborah Alma

With its blend of high-stakes action

where pitch signifies both the stickiness of memory – the way the La Brea Pitch Lake is a place where “buried trees [are] born again” – and the idea of scattering: of places and impressions and the effort to hold them in one vision

Stranger in the Mask of a Deer conjures an elemental

for Cancer Research UK

Eating Air Dennis Tomlinson Why I Write Poetry andSteam rises from bowls of noodle soup, tender steaks are seared in butter, sand roasted chestnuts are shared from a paper bag. Suyin Du Bois's Eating Air is a mouth watering book of poems about food, belonging and connection. Charting a journey across cuisines and continents, these poems carve into the authors dual Chinese Malaysian and Belgian heritage and foods enduring role in our cultural, familial and personal histories. From the low stools of