Louisa Campbell, BEAUTIFUL NOWHERE

‘Louisa Campbell writes resonant, musical poems … The lively voices and characters that people these pages compel attention, leading the reader along unsafe edges towards rapturous heights.’ – John McCullough

The vivid, passionately wrought poems of Beautiful Nowhere encompass themes of childhood trauma, madness, dissociation, psychosis and even an exorcism. Louisa Campbell’s sure handling of these dark and difficult themes draws upon five decades of experience, ensuring the poems’ unflinching honesty, empathy and authenticity in depicting extreme states of mind. Yet these are poems of joy as much as despair, always looking towards ‘the furthest we can see; a beautiful nowhere’.