Scattered Snows, to the North by Carl Phillips TS Eliot Prize ‘Congratulations

‘Congratulations

It gives shape and meaning to memories too painful to contemplate

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an appreciation of its foundational spirit and a rallying cry for all writers to dream the future

Scattered Snows, to the North by Carl Phillips TS Eliot Prize ‘CongratulationsCarl Phillips's Scattered Snows, to the North is a collection about distortion and revelation, about knowing and the unreliability of a knowledge that's rooted in (always unstable) human memory. If the poet's recent books have been engaged with the theme of power, this one focuses on vulnerability: the value of embracing it and thus of releasing ourselves from the compulsion to understand our past. If we remember a thing, did it really happen? If we