The Tattoo Collector by Tim Tim Cheng
Poetry Book Society Winter 2024 Recommendation #Irishpoetry shimmering

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Something Man-Made Is Here and It Is Dangerous is a pamphlet of poetry that finds humour

the Dunblane Primary School shooting

these poems consolidate and extend the achievement of one of the country’s most exciting poets

The Tattoo Collector by Tim Tim Cheng<br><b>Poetry Book Society Winter 2024 Recommendation</b> #Irishpoetry shimmeringI moved to a country called writing declares Tim Tim Cheng in this striking debut collection. The Tattoo Collector explores family history, displacement, politics, protest, and, as it moves between East and West, the uses of language to illustrate and interrogate what lies in between. As these poems range from Hong Kong, Scotland, and London, they unravel the relationship between the body, ecology and class with precise and haunting tenderness. Here,