Hôtel Amour Kerry Brown

Hôtel Amour Kerry BrownA sequel to her T. S. Eliot Prize shortlisted collection Erato, Deryn Rees Jones remarkable new book length poem begins with a woman checking into a hotel in the heart of Paris. Here is a diary of the present day city that doubles as a reckoning with the past, including memories of the pandemic and a love affair. Htel Amours fierce and formidable interrogation of why lyric poetry matters is the work of a poet at the height of her powers.

The former opens up the city of New York

several times named Cartoonist of the Year

singular book

laying data bare with a poet’s meticulous hand

realisation

and shows up close how a decade of Austerity has ravaged our most vulnerable communities and left local authorities financially unable to cope with a crisis of this magnitude

with appreciations from Khaled Mattawa

me with the others

She is currently the Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Middlesex University

Branded a traitor to the revolution

from Salmon

Modern-day Beirut is seen through the eyes of a failed writer