An Arbitrary Light Bulb by Ian Duhig
Poetry Book Society Winter 2024 Choice
Lieke Marsman The poems in this anthology

The poems in this anthology examine hierarchy

despite all the nihilism

Nicole Sealey is the author of The Animal After Whom Other Animals Are Named

the problem of poverty and the problem of war

A beautiful

An Arbitrary Light Bulb by Ian Duhig<br><b>Poetry Book Society Winter 2024 Choice</b><br> Lieke Marsman The poems in this anthologyAn Arbitrary Light Bulb is Ian Duhigs most personal collection of poems to date. It takes its title from the most common type of household bulb yet one whose name is virtually unknown, like many people these poems celebrate. Duhig finds in the arbitrary an image for the randomness of inspiration and of life, haunted here by deaths of family and friends. He laments the lost but also responds to the glories of our existence, especially among the