Emotional Support Horse by Claudine Toutoungi Em Strang Shortlisted for Wales Book of

Shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year for her debut collection Salacia

unsettling and dark

close yet never quite in focus

serving in some of the most brutal battles of the conflict

Emotional Support Horse by Claudine Toutoungi Em Strang Shortlisted for Wales Book ofThis tragi comic, or comi tragic grief journal blends loss and low vision into poems that issue in startling joy. Emotional Support Horse tracks the course of a lived bereavement intensified by sight loss and eco stress. But wit is not only an element of style, it is a state of imagination, and it leads out of dark depth into the region of joy. A woman longs to metamorphose into Nicola Walker in a cop car, or a Hungarian Viszla or just to find an