Before We Go Any Further by Tristram Fane Saunders

Before We Go Any Further by Tristram Fane SaundersShortlisted for the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize 2024In Tristram Fane Saunders' first collection, readers encounter a poet whose ingenious forms dazzle, even while exploring darker themes. Drawing on delicious, unconventional rhymes and rhythms, Before We Go Any Further conjures a contemporary London as it maps the ways we try to communicate with each other across real and invented distances. Sphinxes and sea creatures, sleepwalkers and

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