'Yuyutsu Sharma's new collection is concerned with
notions of home and being away in the exotic elsewhere. Home strikes deep, like
'my grandma / asleep // on a plump / bubble // of a folk song' but is then
flung into the great proper nouns of New York, all detail, all observation and
dazzle. The poems are registered at the tips of the eyes then connected with
the sense of deep home. That is where the power lies. It emerges through ear
and mouth as a kind of cosmopolitan love letter.'
George
Szirtes
British Poet, winner of Faber Memorial
Prize, T.S. Eliot Prize
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