An Arbitrary Light Bulb Bio25 shaping cultures and histories across

shaping cultures and histories across continents centuries before the formation of today’s globalised world

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An Arbitrary Light Bulb Bio25 shaping cultures and histories acrossA Poetry Book Society Choice An Arbitrary Light Bulb is Ian Duhigs most personal collection of poems to date. It takes its title from the most common type of household bulb yet one whose name is virtually unknown, like many people these poems celebrate. Duhig finds in the arbitrary an image for the randomness of inspiration and of life, haunted here by deaths of family and friends. He laments the lost but also responds to the glories of our existence,