We have a little table

for your photo, a candle

some objects you lately touched.

But the whole house has become a shrine ...

'Now We Are Four' is a collection of poems about intimacy, solitude and family. It charts the journey into relationship, then the daily life of a small family: mum, dad, three children (Lara, Maya, Daniel) and one black dog.

The expectation was to create a set of poems that covered the ordinary luminosity of family life. But one day, at three-and-a-hald years of age, Maya suddenly died.