A love the weight of an animal - Elizabeth Gibson's first full-length collection of poems - is a love song to Manchester life.
 
Encounters with urban animals – a cormorant, a dead squirrel, caterpillars, swans – open the door to exploring community, body image, mental health, intimacy, and legacy, through a queer and neurodivergent lens.
 
There are intermissions from city life to take hiking trips around the North, from snowy stillness in the Peak District, to feeling the ghost of Anne Lister in Halifax, to walking barefoot to Hilbre Island.
 
Poems take the shape of a belly, a jamjar, a flame, or words meander down into the earth or disperse like music.
 
A love the weight of an animal is the first publication from Carmenta, a poetry imprint of Confingo Publishing.
 
The book will be published on 3rd July but can be pre-ordered for the special price of £7 + P&P.