Bycatch Shalash Always conscious throughout his work

Always conscious throughout his work of the US immigrant experiences of other peoples as well as his own Irish one

Whether characters are absorbed in social media or burying their grief

rivers and villages

But after his death in Tangier

Bycatch Shalash Always conscious throughout his workIn Bycatch, a new collection by the Ted Hughes Prize shortlisted poet Caroline Smith, the poems ask where personhood is when memory and language are gone. They capture the faltering years of a life gradually scraped bare by the deep sea trawler of dementia yet find amongst the isolation and sadness, moments also of clarity, epiphany and love. Whilst these poems chart deep waters, they remind us also of the enduring and miraculous bond between those