Shift

A second book of poems from the Rhian Gallagher, author of Salt Water Creek, shortlisted for the Forward Prize for a First Collection. New Zealand, London, Brooklyn, Venice... as a relationship unfolds across continents, Shift follows. In Rhian Gallagher’s second collection she beautifully evokes a long-distance love affair as it blooms and ages, alongside the estrangement and joy of a life lived beyond national boundaries. In the three sections of Shift, home, love and self are each explored in a different poetic style, each given a chance to live freely, for ‘Giving up on words is the final failure’.