Was It For This by Hannah Sullivan latinamericanpoetry haunted by historical and literary

haunted by historical and literary figures from Dante to Emily Brontë (whom Kinsella has obsessed over since he was a child

and that considers what it takes to reconcile being different

and the catastrophe

a redemptive act where memory has meaning and the heart need never be kept indoors

Was It For This by Hannah Sullivan latinamericanpoetry haunted by historical and literaryAn exhilarating second collection from the author of Three Poems, winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize and John Pollard Poetry Prize. Was It for This continues the project of Three Poems, offering a trenchant exploration of the ways we attempt to map our lives in space and time. But there is a reckoning, too, with the collective experience of historic event and present disaster. Tenants, the first poem, is fuelled by the particular anxieties of a mother of