What Are You After? by Josephine Corcoran James Womack poignant and idiosyncratic poetry from

poignant and idiosyncratic poetry from four earlier prize-winning collections

 Water Music of a Different Kind

but perhaps the most interesting thing about his work is the use to which he puts features widely disseminated in contemporary poetry: randomness

warm-hearted guide to the English landscape

Nathalie Handal

What Are You After? by Josephine Corcoran James Womack poignant and idiosyncratic poetry fromJosephine Corcorans inventive and unflinching debut poetry collection asks us to consider what it is were really here for. Bold and unsentimental, her remarkable poems trace the lifelines of where weve been and where were going to, and they arent afraid to ask difficult questions of where we are now. Corcorans dexterity allows her to get under the skin of each poem, and to explore other lives with the same attentiveness and concision she brings to her