Small Hands by Mona Arshi Helen Mort It is a book about

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His broad range and eye for the particular combine to make this an exceptional collection

Small Hands by Mona Arshi Helen Mort It is a book aboutWinner of the 2015 Forward Prize for Best First Collection Mona Arshis debut collection, 'Small Hands', introduces a brilliant and compelling new voice. At the centre of the book is the slow detonation of grief after her brothers death but her work focuses on the whole variety of human experience: pleasure, hardship, tradition, energised by language which is in turn both tender and risky. Often startling as well as lyrical, Arshis poems resist fixity;