For the Unnamed by Fred D'Aguiar Doris Kareva These are spine-tingling

These are spine-tingling

you would find yourself and a dream of yourself mingle with the interior dust

At seventeen

brilliant' Yrsa Daley-Ward'A must for all lovers of poetry and its power' Roger Robinson'Manorism is a classic' Caleb FemiIn poems exploring family

part assemblage – draws on the Grasmere Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth

For the Unnamed by Fred D'Aguiar Doris Kareva These are spine-tinglingFor the Unnamed (Black Jockey Who Rode the Winning Steed in the Race Between Pico's Sarco and Sepulveda's Black Swan in Los Angeles, in 1852.)Fred D'Aguiar's new book recovers and re imagines the story of a black jockey who raced and won the most publicised race of his era and yet was not named in any of the many press notices about the event. Except to say that he was black and he was a freeman (that is, he had purchased his freedom). Carcanet