Mortality by Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella PRE-ORDER Longbarrow Press a sequence centred on conversations

a sequence centred on conversations between an artist and her imaginary children concludes when the daughter asks ‘So if we existed the tree could stand alone

Sean Wai Keung

From “those once endless years” of a childhood in wartime – tasting of Granny’s chicken soup

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Mortality by Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella PRE-ORDER Longbarrow Press a sequence centred on conversationsPublished 28th November 2024. Available for pre order. The sixth collection of this profound dialogue between two major poets from opposite sides of the world takes on the subject most of us try to avoid. Provoked by such things as near fatal accidents, family intimacies at points of crisis, the threat of rising temperatures and forest fires in Western Australia, poems confront the reality of physical rot, the fact that history is essentially the