The Wrong Person to Ask by Marjorie Lotfi
POETRY BOOK SOCIETY SPECIAL COMMENDATION WINTER 2023 Ruth McIlroy Kerf features poems about woodworking

Kerf features poems about woodworking

Lesley Saunders’ fourth collection with Two Rivers Press

Arbella Stuart

this time when normal is to be constantly repurposing ourselves – and then to keep going

The Wrong Person to Ask by Marjorie Lotfi<br><b>POETRY BOOK SOCIETY SPECIAL COMMENDATION WINTER 2023</b> Ruth McIlroy Kerf features poems about woodworkingWinner of the James Berry Poetry Prize. Marjorie Lotfi's award winning debut collection is a book of two halves, each a meditation on the idea of home, both the places we start and end up in our lives. Spanning a childhood in Iran dislocated by revolution, through years as a young woman in America, to her current home in Scotland, these poems ask what it means to come from somewhere else, what we carry with us when we leave, and how we land in a new