V. Press is very very pleased to start our 2025 anniversary year with the publication of The Price of Happiness.
“‘The divorced cannot/bury their dead.’ Nikki Robson scours that truth, asks where it leads. We are used to graphic detonations of trauma, but here, the poet, well able to apply her ‘mummy-smile’, layers words, finds metaphor, draws deeply on sources and places. Unfolding her narrative, she never neglects a poet's first responsibility: to language. These poems haunt as mere shock cannot.” Beth McDonough
The Price of Happiness is very visceral and very contemplative.
ISBN: 978-1-7394122-4-1
34 pages
R.R.R.P. £6.99
A sample poem from The Price of Happiness can be enjoyed below.
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Signature dish
We ended the conversation laughing –
weren’t we meant for each other,
making curry on both sides of the Irish Sea?
I’d ground the aromatics and rubbed the lamb,
marinaded it overnight in wine and thyme.
Now low and slow on the hob, it bubbled
up intermittently, splatted spice on steel.
Coriander clung to the sharp blade,
dough bedded in the warming drawer.
Three months later I opened the cupboards
to join my kitchen with his.
Rows of packets of Vesta.