Baby Schema

Longlisted for the Laurel Prize 2024.

A Poetry Book Society Spring Recommendation 2024.

'Trees crawling with babies, babies

darting through the sky

or buoyed by thermal vents, babies

painted with false eyes'

('Fable')

In Isabel Galleymore's second collection, the adorable other is not just an imagined future child, but also a tree frog, a weather-worn statue and often the speaker herself, who dreams of quitting adulthood and an endangered world. 'Mother Earth' is less an entity to be...