So To Speak by Terrance Hayes
POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION AUTUMN 2023
Leonard Cohen The melancholy and candour of

The melancholy and candour of his poetry show his affinity with Thomas Hardy

author of There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack

they blur the personal and political

Marina Warner described her poems as 'building a place of safety—for herself

mining radical and anarchic histories to offer a collection of political resistance with both absurdity and seriousness

So To Speak by Terrance Hayes<br><b>POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION AUTUMN 2023</b><br> Leonard Cohen The melancholy and candour of'Vital and energetic . . . These are the poems of a certain age: scars so old others must tell you how they are made . . . Hayes is a singular poet, and this book a singular achievement' Nick Laird A dazzling new collection of poems from the T. S. Eliot Prize shortlisted author of American Sonnets for My Past and Future AssassinIn So to Speak, the dazzling new collection by Terrance Hayes, the poet seeks to understand how we see ourselves now. He