Deformations

Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Poetry Prize 2021 Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2020 An  Observer  Book of the Year 2020 Deformations  includes two large-scale works related in their preoccupation with biographical and mythical narrative. 'Welfare Handbook' explores the life and art of Eric Gill, the well-known English letter cutter, sculptor and cultural figure, who is known to have sexually abused his daughters. The poem draws on material from Gill's letters, diaries, n