Ladylike is Kate Lilley’s second volume of poetry, much awaited after her 2002 debut Versary (Salt Publishing). She mines the areas of her scholarly specialisation - the early modern period - as well as contemporary popular culture and matches it with some of the twentieth century’s enduring interests such as psychoanalysis and the figure of Sigmund Freud. At all times Kate Lilley applies her sardonic humour and mischievous word play to make her dazzling poems.