Released June 30th, 2025 // 48 pages // 978-1-917617-13-0 // RRP: £10.99 / $14.99 / €12.99
Sue Vickerman’s a suitcaseful of dog is a sharp, darkly funny, and unsentimentally lyrical collection that captures life’s absurdities and devastations with equal intensity. Moving between acerbic social observation and moments of piercing emotional depth, Vickerman’s poems traverse loss, memory, and the strange rituals of everyday survival. Whether recounting a disastrous dog-sitting, navigating the indignities of ageing, or unpicking the quiet violences of family and relationships, her language is crisp, unsparing, and rich with wit. a suitcaseful of dog is poetry that doesn’t look away—bold, pragmatic, and bristling with intelligence.
ABOUT Sue Vickerman:
Sue Vickerman has published five poetry books and four works of fiction and edits for Naked Eye Publishing. Her poems and articles have appeared in Stand, The Rialto, The North, The Guardian, and The Times Educational Supplement, and her story and poem translations in The Poetry Review, Oxford Poetry, Modern Poetry in Translation, The Shanghai Review, and The Los Angeles Review. Her two full length translations from German are a volume of Kathrin Schmidt’s poems and Schmidt’s short story collection. She is a northerner and lives in Yorkshire.
