Shapeshifting for Beginners by Emma Simon Jonathan Edwards a suspicious looking package in

a suspicious looking package in the back seat of a van

Helen Kay and Isabella Mead

are almost indistinguishable… Overwhelmingly the poems are intelligent and well-turned

he was clear-sighted as he faced the end

Time Song brings many such stories together as it tells of the creation

Shapeshifting for Beginners by Emma Simon Jonathan Edwards a suspicious looking package inEmma Simon's wide ranging, work explores how strange and surreal the everyday can be and how real life and stories tend to bleed into one another. These poems mysterious, mythic, magical remain deeply accessible, while being witty and serious. An unforgettable debut collection. Salt Publishing