One Language By Anastasia Taylor-Lind Carol Ann Duffy Austerity and Brexit has done

Austerity and Brexit has done particularly fell work to the North-East

Featuring poems by Claudia Rankine

surprise and wisdom are often right next to each other… Each of Margarit’s poems is its own being

It is a triumph of imagination that she is able to empathise with other forms of oppression

One Language By Anastasia Taylor-Lind Carol Ann Duffy Austerity and Brexit has doneOne Language is a remarkable debut collection. From the perspective of a female photojournalist, these concise but complex and insightful poems draw on first hand experience of war to explore how damage is generated and perpetuated. The books title expresses the contradiction between the lingua franca of photography and the equally universal language of violence. One Language comes to an understanding of personal history and global conflict in poetry