Fondue by AK Blakemore ocean vuong In his fourth collection of

In his fourth collection of poems

the work of a grown-up for grown-ups who will remember what in the nature of things they've had to lose and what nevertheless they seek to celebrate' - Sean O'Brien

Prize-winning poet Ruth Padel’s heartfelt new collection is a grief observed: an elegy for her mother on her death at the age of ninety-seven

The combination is genius

"[A] dazzling and immensely readable collection

Fondue by AK Blakemore ocean vuong In his fourth collection of"[A] dazzling and immensely readable collection." Andrew McMillan 'never say the best of summer's gone', the poem asks, a plea for permanence that sustains throughout Fondue, the second collection by A. K. Blakemore. In these louche, candid poems, bearing the marks of Mary Ruefle, Emily Dickinson and The Smiths, the inner life prowls, smoking a cigarette, as the fantasies of sex and violence allowed to play out in the subjugations that have long been