Bathing on the Roof

Act-of-God-turned-celebrity diva, Flood likes to make an impression. She wakes up on the wrong side of bed, makes a Severn Bridge of herself, parties with lightning, pouts for the paparazzi and drowns far more than she means to. Explored through the lens of the media and fame, these poems imagine how Mother Nature might respond to humanity’ s interference, were she as flawed and determined as humanity itself.

The collection also contains a series of poems that reclaim the Biblical Bathsheba ...