Music for the Dead and Resurrected by Valzhyna Mort Christopher Whyte and composed throughout in sapphics

and composed throughout in sapphics – in English

This innovative debut collection from Adam Kammerling is an archival and deft account of a person reckoning with their heritage and family history

a ‘tonnet’ – hybrid of sonnet and tanka – and

It is a hands-on art

Music for the Dead and Resurrected by Valzhyna Mort Christopher Whyte and composed throughout in sapphicsWINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL GRIFFIN PRIZEA NEW YORK TIMES BEST POETRY BOOK OF 2020 Music for the Dead and Resurrected captures the complexity of living in the shadows of imperial force, of the vulnerability of bodies, of seeing with more than the eyes. Valzhyna Mort's work is characterised by a memorial sensibility that honours those lost to the violences of nation states. In Music for the Dead and Resurrected the poet offers us a body of work which