An Arbitrary Light Bulb by Ian Duhig
Poetry Book Society Winter 2024 Choice
Stephen Sexton deliberately finding itself at the

deliberately finding itself at the interstices of composition and decomposition

There is beauty and grief and humour here

natural and otherwise

that make it up

Her lyric voice and moral imagination in these poems gathers its energy from the urgency of daily concerns and anxieties

An Arbitrary Light Bulb by Ian Duhig<br><b>Poetry Book Society Winter 2024 Choice</b><br> Stephen Sexton deliberately finding itself at theAn Arbitrary Light Bulb is Ian Duhigs most personal collection of poems to date. It takes its title from the most common type of household bulb yet one whose name is virtually unknown, like many people these poems celebrate. Duhig finds in the arbitrary an image for the randomness of inspiration and of life, haunted here by deaths of family and friends. He laments the lost but also responds to the glories of our existence, especially among the