Holly Isemonger, Greatest Hit which won the 2013 Madrigal-Gonzalez

which won the 2013 Madrigal-Gonzalez Best First Book Award

the first stanza from Gulliver’s Travels in which beggars are observed

and through his many translations introduced Argentinian readers to some of Italy’s foremost contemporary poets

was published in the collection On Being Human in 1990

1955) was born in Namatoo

Holly Isemonger, Greatest Hit which won the 2013 Madrigal-GonzalezCommended in the 2023 5Islands Poetry Prize for a First Book of Poetry In her long awaited debut collection, Holly Isemonger, engages, pulls apart, and ingeniously reassembles our language to surprising, ingenious ends. Despite the formal innovation there is nothing cold or dry about this collection: it is funny and sad, biting and wrenching, immediate and tender. These poems are excursions which incorporate both the communal and the deeply personal.