All The Flowers Kneeling by Paul Tran xenia intimate and confiding whilst patting

intimate and confiding whilst patting the pocket where it keeps its secrets

in Carol Ann Duffy's inspired and inspirational collection

of what it means to be alive

barbed wire and artillery shells

Oliver de la Paz

All The Flowers Kneeling by Paul Tran xenia intimate and confiding whilst pattingVisceral and astonishing, Paul Tran's debut poetry collection, All the Flowers Kneeling, charts the rebuilding of a self in the wake of extremity. How, it asks, can we reimagine what we have been given in order to make something new: an identity, a family, a life, a dream? These rich, resonant poems of desire, freedom, control and rebirth reach back into the past the tale of Scheherazade, US imperial violence, a shattering history of personal abuse to