Ghost in your Joints

Matt Thomas contemplates love, ageing, and change in this new collection, which revels in the beauty of the ordinary. Yet, woven into quiet poems about making tea and riding trains are the frustrations of watching his partner learn to navigate an acquired disability and the impact this has on their life together. At times, her pain is impossible to ignore, taking center stage. At other times, it becomes just another part of daily life—like writing emails, doing laundry, or watching kids leap off a pier into the harbour on a summer afternoon. Without the expectation of finding concrete answers to eternal questions, the poems in Ghosts In Your Joints simply aim to look closely enough at two lives to see what’s there.