Velvel's Violin by Jacqueline Saphra
POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION AUTUMN 2023
Ailbhe Darcy migrating birds and autumn leaves

migrating birds and autumn leaves

’  Helen Mort

Rishi Dastidar’s long narrative poem boldly updates Kipling’s ‘The Man Who Would Be King’ to confront one of the most pressing issues our fractured world faces today – how can we live together in peace if we exile the most vulnerable in our societies and deny them a place to belong

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Velvel's Violin by Jacqueline Saphra<br><b>POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION AUTUMN 2023</b><br> Ailbhe Darcy migrating birds and autumn leavesVelvels Violin, a deeply moving and political fifth collection by TS Eliot Prize shortlisted poet Jacqueline Saphra places us on the shifting ground between past and present. Through its search for missing histories of the Jewish diaspora, the book is a call for empathy and a warning to a world where the legacy of the Holocaust echoes current narratives of prejudice, war, displacement, and migration. Saphras precisely tuned writing ranges through