The Odds

by Emma Simon

The Odds is a collection of poems about how we are all juggling with fate, or luck and chance, both good and bad — and sometimes grab the wrong end of the lighted torch.
Winner of the 2018/19 International Book & Pamphlet Competition
Judged by Neil Astley, Michael Schmidt and Amy Wack

32 pages, Paperback

Published February 1, 2020

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Reviews

[Rue Baldry · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a delightful collection of poems which combine contemporary life with a variety of old forms, a slanted view on the familiar and references back through mythology and literature. Robert Smith is Apollo, while still very much himself; children at funfairs are astronauts; ghost flowers haunt London streets and mushrooms embody their vows of silence. All of the poems are intelligent and experimental, playful and accessible. A worthy winner of the Poetry Business Competition.

[Flashflood · Rating 5 out of 5]

I heartily recommend this wonderful collection: Robert Smith, David Beckham, beached whales, Lady Macbeth, mementos mori... And #MeToo

not all men though some men
seemed to care more
about the not all men
than the all women