The Asking: New & Selected Poems by Jane Hirshfield
POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION SPRING 2024 Adam ORiordan Emblem revitalises this forgotten hybrid

Emblem revitalises this forgotten hybrid form in the present as a frame to contemplate the obscurities of motherhood

they seemingly disappear

' – Ruth Padel

In Crown of Thorns G W Colkitto presents a playful yet erudite take on sonnets and not sonnets

which began with their exclusion from cultural activity in Germany in 1933 and had resulted

The Asking: New & Selected Poems by Jane Hirshfield<br><b>POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION SPRING 2024</b> Adam ORiordan Emblem revitalises this forgotten hybridJane Hirshfield is a visionary American writer whose poems ask nothing less than what it is to be human. Both sensual meditations and passionate investigations of our shared and borrowed lives, they reveal complex truths in language luminous and precise. In an era of algorithm, assertion and induced distraction, Jane Hirshfield's poems bring a much needed awakening response, actively countering narrowness. The Asking includes work from her earlier