Grief is the thing with feathers (2015)

A father and his two sons are joined in their bereavement by Crow, an unruly presence who disrupts the household and the language of consolation. Porter works between prose, voices and poetry, making form part of the family’s disorder. The book is slight in size but emotionally abrasive, especially for readers close to a loss; it earns its space through strangeness rather than a tidy lesson.