Life Immediately is a dynamic debut collection containing womanhood, music, the natural world and the comedy and calamity of human relationships. Lily Blacksell’s writing showcases the expansiveness of language, but also its failures. Communication builds up and breaks down, geese honk, hangovers linger in poems where observation is balanced with insouciance.

‘With its amusement park of a heart, mercurial wit, and sprightliness of a wild Appaloosa, Lily Blacksell’s poetry is impossible to predict – and even harder to resist. As true to its name as printed matter can be, Life Immediately is the most purely enjoyable collection I have read in years.’ – Timothy Donnelly

‘Poetry that’s remarkably and uniquely tuned to the social, to sensations, to the natural comedy in womanhood, and to the personal art of daily existence.’ – Holly Pester