Time Begins to Hurt will release in July 2022.

Copies can be ordered though Arc Publications and from Pippa

“Scattered throughout the collection are lines and images which I know I will carry with me as touchstones, reminders of what makes for good poetry. It’s a testament to the poems’ power that this idea doesn’t even strike me as metaphor - so many of them have a physical, visceral quality which lifts them clean off the page and into your palm…Also, I want to thank her for ‘tatterdemalion heart’ which is now one of my favourite phrases - and where this book really hits you.”

Esther Morgan

Opening a book by Pippa Little I know I will find the kind of directness one can trust. There will be images that make the world of a page real; draw us in […] That is what Pippa Little does so well. And she does it with wide range, with different modes, various poetics. Take for example a poem such as ‘A Father Is’ and you find at first a very different use of poetic devices, a fountain of figurative language. But soon enough it is here again, that feeling of recognition, of a poet knowing what’s inside you though you have never met her [. ..] Or take for example (you see, I can’t resist another example) a poem such as ‘A Plummeting’: it’s so different, a one sentence of eleven lines, drawing us in and in and then – yes, a feeling of recognition – we find that the landscape herein is our solitude: however inventive it is also bare, like a person who cannot sleep and stares and stares all night at a blank wall. Which is to say, we recognize ourselves in these pages, our days, our questions. And the pages fortify. Why? Because they are honest. And for that, I am grateful.

Ilya Kaminsky