The Day Before by Aoife Lyall windrush From the intimately personal –

From the intimately personal – the choices that lead us towards

marginality and dispossession

who had Covid:

The poets saying ‘Hwaet

John Hegley

The Day Before by Aoife Lyall windrush From the intimately personal –Aoife Lyall's The Day Before beautifully captures the ordinary moments in life that crystallise in the face of crisis and threat. Focusing on the earliest weeks and months of the pandemic, these intimate and meticulous poems mark the lived experience of someone who must navigate a world she no longer understands, exploring first steps and last breaths, milestones, millstones, emigration, fly tipping and the entire world to be found in the space behind