Litany of Coal by Jean Taylor #Carcanetpress This volume combines poetry

This volume combines poetry

This poetry collection seeks to recover the lived experiences of women who have often appeared only fleetingly in official histories

So let Danielle’s translation be our 'secret entrance' to where 'the transparent marvel' at the heart of Maria’s poetics is revealed as unmissable and uncorrupted news—a different mind map

‘Phoebe [Stuckes]

Litany of Coal by Jean Taylor #Carcanetpress This volume combines poetryIn Litany of Coal, Jean Taylor draws on family history and her childhood in Scotland and Nigeria to explore the legacy of the mining industry and the issues of inequality and ancestral guilt. I love this reflective pamphlet for its insight and warm emotional connection to coalmining from a poet born into that community. Rich in the imagery and vocabulary of the families who served that industry, these poems address its customs, superstitions,