To an Unknown Receiver is a love-letter, an elegy and a time capsule. Over the course of fourteen sonnets, Erica Hesketh considers humanity’s dazzling creativity and capacity for hope alongside the grievous harms we have perpetrated, both to the planet and to one another – ‘the brave / mad wreckage of our species’. Then, in five ‘cascades’, she remixes her ideas, sifting through the available language again and again to find new meaning.

Erica Hesketh’s debut collectionIn the Lily Roomwas published by Nine Arches Press in 2025. She is the editor ofLiving in Language: International reflections for the practising poet(Poetry Translation Centre, 2024) and co-author with Laura Sampson ofMoon, Snow, Blossom: Wintry Tales from Across Japan(Elliott & Thompson, 2026). Originally from Japan and Denmark, she now lives in London with her partner and child.

ISBN 978-1-913749-73-6 / 36 pages / 180 × 130mm / made with
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