Aquafaba by Colin Herd chatto & windus turning wood and word in

turning wood and word in awkward spaces into an assemblage that tests how far poetry can go beyond functionality

even as they celebrate that there is really "no end to unknowing"

He has given us an energetic

But the world will have the last word

‘the tied circle’ – a circle with two dots above it that indicates a feminine word

Aquafaba by Colin Herd chatto & windus turning wood and word inAquafaba is the sappy gluey liquid that beans or chickpeas float about in, cushioning their collisions with one another in tins or jars. It takes on traces of the legumes as they fray and bump at the edges. But when enough air is introduced, this seemingly inconsequential byproduct, destined to be wasted, forms a foam with enough stability to obtain aerated structures and dizzying peaks. In this new collection by Colin Herd, poetry is figured as the