City of Bones by Kwame Dawes Julian Turner Kate Foley is a much

Kate Foley is a much published and respected poet with many awards to her name

Planes crash

From the Fall of Man to the fall of a boy

Westcott’s poems are alive to the beautiful in the commonplace and offer up a precise honouring of the wild

poems so urgent they had to be scribbled on beer mats

City of Bones by Kwame Dawes Julian Turner Kate Foley is a muchCity of Bones is a poets testament, his vision of times past and future. Composed in a language that is highly intelligent, tightly wrought, and buoyantthe inherent lyric quality derives its swing from reggae, blues, jazz, gospel, and spoken word traditionsit is a road map tarred in civilizational wisdom. This is an astonishingly fine book. If I were to predict a future Nobel Prize winner in literature, it would more than likely be Kwame Dawes. Sudeep