From the 'small world' of modern family life, evoked with humour and an acute ear for its intricate dynamics, Richard Price's Small World travels into the catastrophe of sudden, devastating illness. Price's poems explore how the world must be relearned - by the patient, by the poet. How far is it true that 'Only translations remain / of what we were'?

A love letter, a record, Small World is an unforgettable testimony to love and courage.


'...when you come to such energy combined with impressive inventiveness and lyricism, it is rather hard to pass on by [...] the humour, the wittiness [are] there throughout, as is a boldness of utterance [...] Here, however sorrowful the story, I hope other readers too will feel the energy of language in the making.'
Caroline Clark, Eyewear