Velvel's Violin by Jacqueline Saphra
POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION AUTUMN 2023
Anthony Rudolf L'Abbé Guillaume Massieu

L'Abbé Guillaume Massieu

      Atlantic – now churning up an army of wild horses

These are poems to wander about in and to take your time with as your eyes adjust to their particular light

yet offering new kinds of fellowship and connection in an age of individualism and rootlessness

From a review of Air Vault:

Velvel's Violin by Jacqueline Saphra<br><b>POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION AUTUMN 2023</b><br> Anthony Rudolf L'Abbé Guillaume MassieuVelvels Violin, a deeply moving and political fifth collection by TS Eliot Prize shortlisted poet Jacqueline Saphra places us on the shifting ground between past and present. Through its search for missing histories of the Jewish diaspora, the book is a call for empathy and a warning to a world where the legacy of the Holocaust echoes current narratives of prejudice, war, displacement, and migration. Saphras precisely tuned writing ranges through