First published on Valentines Day 2013 Couples is a blackly comic sequence of poems that explore the nature of codependency of two people who want to be together but at the same time cannot help but push each other away. Now the sevenyear itch has brought Michael Stewart back to this subject for a new edition revisiting and rethinking the original poems and adding a dozen more. The layout of the book is itself a commentary on the phenomenon the poems are placed in their own couples pairs t