Was It For This by Hannah Sullivan latinamericanpoetry The Malarkey is a condition-of-England

The Malarkey is a condition-of-England book

and that considers what it takes to reconcile being different

haunted by historical and literary figures from Dante to Emily Brontë (whom Kinsella has obsessed over since he was a child

It’s an absolutely must-read for young poetry explorers and nature lovers everywhere

The poet’s failure to write “a real love poem” and a childhood memory of near-accidental loss of eyesight are both

Was It For This by Hannah Sullivan latinamericanpoetry The Malarkey is a condition-of-EnglandAn exhilarating second collection from the author of Three Poems, winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize and John Pollard Poetry Prize. Was It for This continues the project of Three Poems, offering a trenchant exploration of the ways we attempt to map our lives in space and time. But there is a reckoning, too, with the collective experience of historic event and present disaster. Tenants, the first poem, is fuelled by the particular anxieties of a mother of