Bycatch by Caroline Smith Nick Laird As we fall down the

As we fall down the rabbit hole we practice funerals

Amali Rodrigo

stories enact themselves in portraits and postcards

she earned a PG Dip

Bycatch by Caroline Smith Nick Laird As we fall down theShortlisted for The Forward Prize for Best Collection 2026 A deep sea trawler, dementia destroys all life in its path: friendships, the symbiosis of family and ultimately the self. In Bycatch, a new collection by the Ted Hughes Prize shortlisted poet Caroline Smith, these poems ask where personhood is when memory and language are gone. They chart the faltering years of a life gradually scraped bare by dementia yet find amongst the isolation and