Life expectancy begins to fall

Life expectancy begins to fall

Tom Sastry 

ISBN: 9781916760127

eISBN: 9781916760134


Price: £11.99

Publication date: 20th March 2025


Format: Paperback / eBook

Territories: World

Extent: 72pp

DCF: Poetry Collections

 



Is your retirement plan dying in the climate wars? Are you getting on with things in the meantime? Life expectancy begins to fall is a book of poems about how it feels to normalise an apocalypse.


It is not a call to arms, it is a poet’s book about the weight we all carry –uncompromisingly curious, emotional and authentic.

 

 

 


 

 Praise for previous poetry by Tom Sastry:

 

“A magician of deadpan” – Hera Lindsay Bird  


“incisive, witty, surreal, truthful” – Amy Acre


"Tom Sastry navigates the mysterious everyday...making friendships and love affairs new and strange"  - Carol Ann Duffy 

 

 About the author:


Tom Sastry is political, ironic, emotional, morbid and funny in all the wrong places. He has published two previous collections (both with Nine Arches) and one pamphlet. These have been (variously) Poetry School Book of the Year, Poetry Book Society pamphlet choice, highly commended in the Forward Prize and shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize.

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