Significant Wow by Emily Cotterill Ciaran Berry 'The ancients taught me how

'The ancients taught me how to sound modern

Another Time was the first volume that Auden published after his departure to America with Christopher Isherwood in January 1939

‘Jubilate Excreta’

Sarah Corbett

      peaceful as a dog glossed by the morning sun

Significant Wow by Emily Cotterill Ciaran Berry 'The ancients taught me howFollowing her Laureate Choice Pamphlet The Day of the Flying Ants, Emily Cotterills debut collection Significant Wow is delivered with dry wit, fizzing with humour and inventiveness. Her subjects range from celebrity culture (Blondie, David Bowie, Michael Sheen) to the class system (Money in your mouth like an accident) to reservations about parenthood in A Speculative Script for Motherhood. Here is a surreal mixture of feral hogs, terrariums, the