Released 31st July 2022 // 74 pages // 978-1-915079-31-2
 
Interval: House, Lover, Slippages is the first collection from Lucy Rose Cunningham. The poems find Cunningham in contemplative mode, seeking to understand: “the year 2020 and the years that follow”. The poems are neatly observed, paying close attention to melody, with a love of beauty reminiscent of the artists she references. Interval: House, Lover, Slippages is a collection which overflows with imaginative, intoxicating images and sounds.
 
 
PRAISE for Interval: House, Lover, Slippages:
 
Cunningham’s reflections on a restless year of quiet are a requiem for lost time. The poet’s experience is at once deeply personal and strikingly universal. With its deft lyricism and delicate, burning melancholy, Slippages is a rich and soaring hymn to intimacy, distance, longing, memory, promise and hope… Just as the passing of time carries us through waiting and wanting, Cunningham carries us along on the crest of her words.
— Esmé O’Keeffe, writer for Times Literary Supplement
 
Interval is a writing into and through the pandemic; an extended poetic pause. As always, Cunningham writes with a gorgeous phonetic sensibility, paired with a slightness of touch in illuminating the details of the domestic, natural and motions of the everyday, transforming them into things of beauty.
— Marina Scott, Assistant Programmer, Cambridge Literary Festival