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Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection
The reading becomes archaeological as layers and layers of meaning
for the elegy and the urgency and the prophecy
this beautiful anthology is a heart-warming reminder of how books nourish us
Moving House by Theophilus Kwek Jean Boase-Beier Shortlisted for the Forward PrizeTheophilus Kwek's first UK collection is concerned with the individual and the collective stories that become history. The poems set out from formative moments in the poet's memory, to pivotal moments in the colonial past of Southeast Asia, and finally the political upheavals of the present. Hospitality, precarity, migration these are some of the themes that recur as the poet makes his own journey from Singapore to Europe and back again. Moving House
