The Missing by Sin Hughes - 9781844717767

The MissingAuthor(s): Sin Hughes\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Salt Publishing, United Kingdom\nImprint: Salt Publishing\nISBN-13: 9781844717767, 978-1844717767\nSynopsis\nWinner Seamus Heaney Centre Prize for Poetry\n\nShortlisted for The Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection Forward Poetry Prizes 2009\n\nPoetry Bank Choice and Poetry Book Society Recommendation. In 2006 The Send-Off, an elegy for a lost child, was broadcast on Womans Hour on BBC Radio 4 and the issues it raised ante-natal testing, grief, guilt, the family, womens lives raged on for weeks in blogs and notice boards. But no one wondered what the poem was about. It was crystal clear. The poems in Sian Hughes debut collection, The Missing are direct and emotional. They do not hide behind imagery. They deal head on with the heart of shame, with parenting, illness, loss, regret and falling in love with the wrong people.