Love / looking for something, what can it be -- Home / the bed's too big, the frying pan's too wide -- Child / child, with a child, pretending -- Flowers / clean white linen and fancy French cologne -- Blue / you know I've been to sea before -- Strangers / will you take me as I am -- Crazy / can't numb you out of my mind -- River / I wish I had a river -- Soul / part of you pours out of me -- Dreamers / all good dreamers pass this way

"Amy Key-a writer "of rare and strange magic" (Guardian)-probes the art of living without romance in this soul-stirring debut. Arrangements in Blue elegantly honors the life lived completely by-and for-oneself. Inspired by Joni Mitchell's seminal album Blue, celebrated British poet Amy Key sets out to examine the volatile scales of romantic feeling as she has encountered them: from the low notes of loss and unfulfilled desire-punctuated by sharp, discordant feelings of jealousy and regret-to the deep harmony of friendship and the highs defined by sexual attraction and self-realization. Key celebrates the bliss of sleeping in an empty bed, the intimate energy required for cooking solo, and the transformative power of traveling alone-especially to the sea. Written with the exquisite finesse of a poet, this bold manual for navigating life alone provides an alternative perspective on a shared human experience so rarely explored"--