Mouth by Mona Arshi
Poetry Book Society Choice Autumn 2025 Tyrone Lewis author of The Liar's Dictionary'Direct

author of The Liar's Dictionary'Direct and heart-breaking' Alex Dimitrov

telling the story of death and dying in a NHS hospital

’ – Elizabeth Lund

on Waiting for Bluebeard

then pulls the rug away

Mouth by Mona Arshi<br><b>Poetry Book Society Choice Autumn 2025</b> Tyrone Lewis author of The Liar's Dictionary'DirectPublished 17th July 2025. 'Delicately lethal; sharp eyed and tender' Preti Taneja, author of We That Are Young 'Quick before the story ebbs away. There are things I need to tell you' A work of great strength and equal delicacy, Mouth transports us to a world where violence hangs in the air, where beauty, pity and cruelty intertwine. The sequence at its heart, Palace, takes the overlooked women from the edges of Greek tragedy and places them centre