The Slug Sabbatical

Wild Workshop is a collection of three long poems published by Faber & Faber in 1997. The poems are Anne Carson's The Glass Essay, Kay Adshead's The Slug Sabbatical and Bridget Meeds's The Light. Each poem deals, in its distinctive way, with the aftermath of an unsatisfactory love affair: Carson's through a meditation on Emily Bronte and on her own relations with her mother; Adshead's by means of grotesque comic exaggeration; Meeds's in a deadpan account of the life of an American student working in a Belfast pizza kitchen.

The book is out of print but may be available from secondhand book networks.