The Luck Format:Default Title

The Luck Format:Default TitleA new collection from Jane Routh, author of Circumnavigation, shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and Teach Yourself Mapmaking, a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. After lockdowns have swept calendars clear, leaf fall, early sunrise and gales are Jane Rouths measures of time, as she goes about her tasks in the hill pasture and woodlands where she has the luck to live. With sharp, lyrical description and down to earth

from Greece to Italy

the body a radical means of expression

ominous communication about the unsheltering of Trinidad

There are golden lines

the territory where symbol is created from suffering and metaphor from the muscle of language

The stories

anger and hope through the medicine of connection

A visceral

Mari and Huw

· A lively guide to the idiosyncrasies of Hadrian’s Wall

Shawqi Shafiq and many more

and Regina