Goliat by Rhiannon Hooson Annabel Banks readers can expect more exceptional

readers can expect more exceptional craft

but never sentimental

but a closer look reveals how little of herself she has really surrendered

he imbues each fourteen-line fragment with wit

always somewhere close at hand

Goliat by Rhiannon Hooson Annabel Banks readers can expect more exceptionalGoliat is a second collection and follow up to Rhiannon Hoosons Wales Book of the Year nominated debut, The Other City. The poems are sumptuous, full of vivid imagery from the natural world woven with pointed observations that chime with contemporary themes, including social issues and climate emergency. Goliat is the name of an oil field in the Barents Sea, and the Russian for Goliath: a whale, a giant, a monster. The title poem is in the voice of