City of Departures by Helen Tookey Jeffrey Scott Bernstein So all these poems have

So all these poems have an explicit connection to the city

for a new world

  Across intimidating obstacles of time and culture

parallel lives

a daring poet

City of Departures by Helen Tookey Jeffrey Scott Bernstein So all these poems haveShortlisted for The 2019 Forward Prize for Best Collection City of Departures is Helen Tookeys second Carcanet collection, following her 2014 Missel Child, an exceptional volume from a powerful and intelligent imagination (Jeffrey Wainwright). City of Departures is a collection of uncanny spaces and fleeting encounters, an urban patchwork of glimpsed moments and chance affiliations. Through them, Tookey explores the ways in which we create meaning and