Stranger, Baby

Emily Berry's Dear Boy was described as a 'blazing debut', winning the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2013. Stranger, Baby, its follow-up, is marked by the same sense of fantasy and play, estrangement and edgy humour for which she has become known. But these poems delve deeper again, in their off-kilter and often painful encounter with childhood loss. This is a book of mourning, recrimination, exhilaration and 'oceanic feeling': 'A meditation on a want that can never be answered.'

Emily Berry is the author of three books of poems published by Faber & Faber: Dear Boy (2013), Stranger, Baby (2017) and Unexhausted Time (2022). She has been the recipient of the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the Hawthornden Prize and the Poetry Book Society Choice. A selection of her work appears in Penguin Modern Classics 1: If I'm Scared We Can't Win. She is editor-in-chief of the bedtime stories app Sleep Worlds.