Poems for revelling in passion and perversity, for the inspection of violence and pain, for tampering with truth, for always getting your fingers wet, for making lame pigs everywhere powerful.

Rosy Carrick is a writer and performer based in Brighton. She has a PhD on the poetry of Vladimir Mayakovsky and has released two books of his work in translation: Volodya: Selected Works of Vladimir Mayakovsky (Enitharmon, 2015) and Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (Smokestack, 2017). Chokey is her first poetry collection.