The Company Misery Loves by Kate Fox

The Company Misery Loves by Kate Fox

In his Collected Works, the surrealist poet Paul Eluard writes, There is another world, but it is in this one. The poems in this collection set out to examine what it means to exist in those distinct but inseparable worlds-worlds that can cause both misery and joy for those who are time-bound, but can also grant infinite insight and wisdom. All the voices and stories gathered here intertwine and co-exist, revealing, as poet Irene Kinney writes, this unknown buried in the known.

Kate Fox is a social anthropologist and the co-director of the Oxford-based Social Issues Research Centre. Watching the English and Passport to the Pub are two of her books.