Venus as a Bear Martha J. Kanter Olwen longs to be just

Olwen longs to be just like hare

follow-up sessions

self-compassion

They are astir with voices and bodies usually kept ‘between the lines’ of poetry: someone weeping outside the decorum of a lyric

Readers learn practical skills for observation

Venus as a Bear Martha J. Kanter Olwen longs to be justThe Poetry Book Society Summer 2018 Choice. Shortlisted for The 2018 Forward Prize for Best Collection. Vahni Capildeo's Venus as a Bear collects poems on animals, art, language, the sea, thinghood, metaphor, description, and dance. They tend toward, and tend to, the inanimate and non human, tenderly disclosing their forms of sentience. We have feelings for creatures, objects and places, but where do these affinities come from? How do things, as