Swans by Michelle Brown

Michelle Brown's second book of poetry,Swans,begins as a night out between three best friends at an eponymous watering hole before becoming a phantasmagorical coming-of-age fable by closing time. In between, memory shifts and poems shuffle like songs on a jukebox, detailing fraught female friendship, sexual awakening, alcohol abuse and abandon in the dying days of a decade of decadence.Swansis a whip-smart collection from one of Canada's catchiest lyric poets. (FromAnstruther Books)

Michelle Brown is a poet living on the west coast of Canada. Brown's first full-length collection of poetry,Safe Words, was shortlisted for the 2018 ReLit award.