My Darling from the Lions

Rachel Long is an enchanting and heartwarming new voice in poetry.Bernardine Evaristo, Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other

I loved reading these poems. They are immediate, accessible and necessary, but also joyful, witty and elegant. They tell stories we so much need to hear.Kate Clanchy

A delight. It takes melancholic, surprising turns every couple of pages, with poems centred around combating body shame, sex and faith.Roger Robinson, The Week

In My Darling From the Lions, Long embodies through verse at once sensual and breathless the tempo of desire. Here is life as sacred and profane, rendered by a voice so clear it cuts through everything and rings like a bell.Mary Jean Chan, author of Fleché