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.