infra·structure by Katy Lewis Hood and Maria Sledmere Ciaran Berry It is a joyful celebration

It is a joyful celebration of nature words and the natural world they invoke

in which the poet tries all the doors and windows to find her

Never sentimental

Preoccupied with demise and loss

infra·structure by Katy Lewis Hood and Maria Sledmere Ciaran Berry It is a joyful celebrationinfrastructure is a collaborative work shaped over a year of correspondence between Katy Lewis Hood and Maria Sledmere. The pamphlet was written following an Association of Literature and Environment conference on the Orkney islands, a wind battered archipelago north of the Scottish mainland. The poems respond to this distinct setting and share a dichotomous relationship where each complete poem is mirrored by an incomplete sister poem. Katy Lewis