“Luke Beesley’s In the Photograph offers a series of vignettes that capture the poetic imagination in flight. In these prose poems, capacious and playful, the subtle ‘twists in emotional grammar’ inconspicuously ‘concertinaed’ in the seconds of our diurnal existences billow out into surreal and hypervivid epiphanies. Shuttling between the suburban and the sublime, Beesley finds provocations in everything… [T]his book provides conclusive proof of the compatibility between formal experimentation and democratic appeal.”

Judges’ comments, Prime Minister’s Literary Awards