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Bantam
Bantam | Jackie Kay
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Bantam brings three generations into sharp focus Jackie Kays own, her fathers, and his own fathers in a book that shows how the body holds its own story: how a shrapnel injury from the First World War can emerge years later; how we bear and absorb the loss of others; how we celebrate and welcome new life; how we how we embody our times, whether we want to or not. The poems collected in Bantam cross borders, from Rannoch Moor to the Somme, from Brexit to Bronte country. Who are we? Who might we want to be? These are poems that sing of what connects us and lament what divides us; poems that send daylight into the dark that threatens to overwhelm us and could not be more necessary for the times in which we live.
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Bantam | Jackie Kay
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"The road that was in your head
Has already found you walking:
When you looked up ahead,
It was your footsteps waiting."

- The Imaginary Road

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A diverse collection of poems, from the poet's grandfather in the trenches of WWI to the Scottish lochs and forests, from urban Glasgow and Manchester to Haworth and Patrick Brontë, and from the sublime to Nigel Farage (doubtful he will include "Planet Farage" amongst his press clippings) and, perhaps not unconnected, to the experience of refugees in Britain. 3.5 ⭐

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