Slide by Mark Pajak
PBS Recommendation Autumn 2022 Math Jones Honorifics

Honorifics

Like the work of the European poets who have nourished him

and there is more for us to gain

is in writing poems which are both ‘plentiful and fragile like a crystal…balancing on the line between the human soul and the universe

In the “wild-world” of Wendy Pratt’s poetry

Slide by Mark Pajak<br> <b> PBS Recommendation Autumn 2022</b> Math Jones Honorifics'Fresh, urgent, alive genius.' Patience Agbabi This assured and arresting first collection moves deftly and with purpose into private, hidden places a locked shed, the dark of a battery farm, a murky riverbed, a late night bar to show, unflinchingly and in cinematic detail, what we might otherwise choose not to see. Sight is both a gift and curse, of course: given or taken away in poems of windows and curtains, torches and blindfolds, and yet here