Turn Up the Ocean by Tony Hoagland Sohini Basak Shortlisted for the Forward Prize

Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection

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‘A major contribution to post-war literature…Using a painter-like collage of images to retrieve lost times

Turn Up the Ocean by Tony Hoagland Sohini Basak Shortlisted for the Forward PrizeAmericas Tony Hoagland (1953 2018) was known for provocative poems which interrogate human nature and contemporary culture with an intimate and wild urgency, located somewhere between outrage, stand up comedy, and grief. The poems in his final collection Turn Up the Ocean examine with an unflinching eye and mordant humour the reality of living and dying in a time and culture that conspire to erase our inner lives. Hoaglands signature wit and