ISBN 978-1-909404-59-5. Pamphlet collection 32 pages.
Joint winner in Category B (poets with previous collections) of the Poetry Space Prize 2024.
This beautiful pamphlet is a salve for the soul. Full of compassion, and preoccupied with those things ‘bigger than she is’, Baird evokes, with humbling humanity and sensitivity, the changes that happen around and within us. The Importance of Not is a pamphlet that asks questions, and leaves room for us to consider the answers.
Laura Fyfe
These are love poems in the widest sense. The poet’s minute observation of the natural world is mirrored by her acute perceptiveness of a dying father’s shifting moods, an array of responses to global pandemic and a sense of her own mortality. It’s a celebration of life in all its seasons.
Anne Hay
Sample poem
Midsummer Trove
— Dorothy Baird 2025
