Scattered Snows, to the North by Carl Phillips Jane Hirshfield at events and festivals such

at events and festivals such as Cheltenham Poetry Festival

Poems and Ballads (1866)

Cancer is playfully compared to co-existing with a ring-tailed lemur

easily snapped

Scattered Snows, to the North by Carl Phillips Jane Hirshfield at events and festivals suchCarl Phillips's Scattered Snows, to the North is a collection about distortion and revelation, about knowing and the unreliability of a knowledge that's rooted in (always unstable) human memory. If the poet's recent books have been engaged with the theme of power, this one focuses on vulnerability: the value of embracing it and thus of releasing ourselves from the compulsion to understand our past. If we remember a thing, did it really happen? If we