Sunshine is the new collection from Next Generation Poet Melissa Lee-Houghton. A writer of startling confession, her poems inhabit the lonely hotel rooms, psych wards and deserted lanes of austerity Britain.Sunshine combines acute social observation with a dark, surreal humour born of first-hand experience. Abuse, addiction and mental health are all subject to Lee-Houghton's poetic eye. But these are also poems of extravagance, hope and desire, that stake new ground for the Romantic lyric in an age of social media and internet porn. In this new book of poems, Melissa Lee-Houghton shines a light on human ecstasy and sadness with blinding precision.Includes 'i am very precious' - Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem 2016.

About the Author

Melissa Lee-Houghton was announced as a Next Generation Poet in 2014. Her first and second collections are published by Penned in the Margins. Beautiful Girls was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Her poem 'i am very precious' was shortlisted for The Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. She has received a Northern Writers' Award for her fiction. She lives in Blackburn, Lancashire.

Awards
Winner of Somerset Maugham Award 2017. Short-listed for Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry 2017 and Forward Prize for Best Single Poem 2016 and Costa Poetry Award 2016 and The Guardian Best Poetry Books of 2016 2016.



Book Information
ISBN 9781908058386
Author Melissa Lee-Houghton
Format Paperback
Page Count 90
Imprint Penned in the Margins
Publisher Penned in the Margins