Cain Named The Animal by Shane McCrae Mary Dickins as she learns to choose

as she learns to choose her own road

Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection'Impressive

Antifreeze

and Cardiff’s trade magnates

Running with a headwind

Cain Named The Animal by Shane McCrae Mary Dickins as she learns to chooseIn McCraes hands, poetry is reclamation. It is also transport: writing a way out and through Kate Kellaway, GuardianConfirms McCrae as one of the most erudite and inventive poets of our time Kit Fan, GuardianWriting you I give the death I takeI know I should feel wounded by your deathI write to you to make a wound write backShane McCrae fashions a world of endings and infinites in Cain Named the Animal. With cyclical, rhythmic lines that create and