Sculling by Sophie Dumont world book day The ultimate eulogy for a

The ultimate eulogy for a postcolonial dream

This extensive and wide-ranging selection is taken from three collections of the poetry of one of France's most exciting writers of the twentieth century

whose lives are held together by ideas

Willy Netta’s Singing Jockeys

Sculling by Sophie Dumont world book day The ultimate eulogy for aShortlisted for the Jerwood Prize 2026 This is a book of watersheds love, death and rivers and once you slip into its beguiling flow, you dont want it to end. Poised, fecund and inventive, Dumonts poetry speaks to these times with a visceral sense of how it is to navigate fracture, interrogate the unfathomable elements and attempt to live a joined up life Linda France This is writing as sure and complex as the flow of water, weaving its wide