Silk Work Philip Wilson Steer issue of emigration and the

issue of emigration and the unresolved history of the Second World War

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"Probably the best book ever written on British Jazz

and together present an equally powerful and graphic picture of the poet’s homeland

Fintan O'Toole

Silk Work Philip Wilson Steer issue of emigration and theIn Silk Work, Imogen Cassels debut collection, desire and grief are a double edged subject, elucidated through a kind of lyric diffidence. Forms, translations, folksongs, geographies of longing, and the work of memory are interplayed, though always with the haunting implication that the words we use to document our lives are never quite enough. As they weave multiple sources from literature, philosophy, visual art and history into ways of reading and