An Arbitrary Light Bulb by Ian Duhig
Poetry Book Society Winter 2024 Choice
Lieke Marsman the problem of poverty and

the problem of poverty and the problem of war

Victor Hugo and Lorca - it becomes clear that the fathoming of our iron age is inseparable from the coming dawn

The poems in this anthology examine hierarchy

a tablet with a little

British Library

An Arbitrary Light Bulb by Ian Duhig<br><b>Poetry Book Society Winter 2024 Choice</b><br> Lieke Marsman the problem of poverty andAn Arbitrary Light Bulb is Ian Duhigs most personal collection of poems to date. It takes its title from the most common type of household bulb yet one whose name is virtually unknown, like many people these poems celebrate. Duhig finds in the arbitrary an image for the randomness of inspiration and of life, haunted here by deaths of family and friends. He laments the lost but also responds to the glories of our existence, especially among the