ALT Cover of Vanessa Napolitano's 'The Lives We Had Before' showing a woman's hand rising from an assortment of pale daisy-like flowers. Text 'Each poem is a story, an empathy machine, a portal into her rich and vivid imagination’ Review by Satya Bosman

ALT Image: household clutter in black and white surrounded by a black background Text: A Bit OCD Floors are unvacuumed. Spices remain un-alphabetised. I bless the spaces between the furniture to keep everyone safe. Seven. I do not arrive exactly on time. Margins can keep their default size. I would like you to promise me this isn’t poison. This supermarket chicken. Vanessa Napolitano