"Cells mutate, language dissolves and bodies fall away..."

 

The Triumph of Cancer blurs the borders of science and poetry, working with forensic attention to capture the ‘inscape’ of the living world.

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"Out on the estuary a slab of land had separated itself from the horizon and was moving closer"

Low Country: Brexit on the Essex Coast

In 2016 Tom Bolton set out on a mission to walk the long, winding coastline of Essex — from Purfleet on the Thames Estuary to the Suffolk border.

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"Raymond Antrobus is as searching a poet as you're likely to find writing today."

Kaveh Akbar

The Perseverance is the remarkable debut book by British-Jamaican poet Raymond Antrobus.

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