and Sassy Ross’s tightly structured explorations of memory between the here and there of St Lucia and New York
and with a foreword by his editor at Faber & Faber
scholar and translator Issa J Boullata
Ricaredo Silebo Boturu and Agnès Agboton
"This book is unforgettable
The Feel-Good Movie of the Year Amir Tag Elsir and Sassy Ross’s tightly structured***Pre Order!*** 'My poor old heart, I've left its drawbridge down' Divorced, and perhaps a little bruised, Luke Wright journeys off the sunken roads of southern England and into himself, pursued by murderous swans, empty car seats, and his father's skeleton clocks. Both brazen and elegiac, these poems pull on the tidy hem of responsible existence, unravelling the banal frustrations of online outrage and ageing friends, and grasping at something