now / listen: / hang on / keep your silence / until the words / ripen / in you
This volume brings together all his published collections: Jaffo the Calypsonian
incorporeal moments and with vanishing acts…The personal poems are superb and anything but self-indulgent' – Kate Kellaway
“These are direct
poet Julia Deakin tirelessly questions how we have come to this exhausting impasse
The Lost Book of Barkynge by Ruth Wiggins Nuzhat Bukhari now / listen: / hangIn her debut collection, Ruth Wiggins recovers the forgotten voices of the nuns, abbesses and local women of the medieval abbey at Barking. Against a backdrop of famine, plague, war and spiritual upheaval, these poems explore the strange, uncertain days of the early abbey: mysterious visions, politics, violence and sisterhood, and end with the final abbess mourning the eradication of her home as the Dissolution unhouses her, her sisters, and countless