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Daisy Lafarge’s Life Without Air was published this year by Granta Books. Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry, the collection explores states of airlessness, from ghostly asphyxiations to the toxic environments of extractive capitalism, and ensuring consequences both psychic and ecological. Granta spoke to the poet about the zoonotic diseases, ancient processes of inoculation and resisting totalising metaphors.   The title of the collection is ‘Life Without Air’ – a refe...