Before We Go Any Further

By Tristram Fane Saunders

Shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize 2024. In Tristram Fane Saunders' first collection, readers encounter a poet whose ingenious forms dazzle, even while exploring darker themes. Drawing on delicious, unconventional rhymes and rhythms, Before We Go Any Further conjures a contemporary London as it maps the ways we try to communicate with each other across real and invented distances. Sphinxes and sea-creatures, sleepwalkers and surrealists visit poems about art and friendship, poems that are 'trying to tilt toward love', but 'can't help tugging/at the invisibly thin/line between true and honest'. They discover wry humour in that struggle.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1800173253
• ISBN13: 9781800173255
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Carcanet Press
• Length: 84 Pages
• Weight: 0.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.4" x 8.5"