**WINNER OF THE COSTA POETRY AWARD 2018** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE
2018 FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION** A war-poem both historic
and frighteningly topical, Assurances begins in the 1950s during a
period of vigilance and dread in the middle of the Cold War: the
long stand-off between nuclear powers, where the only defence was
the threat of mutually assured destruction. Using a mix of versed
and unversed passages, Morgan places moments of calm reflection
alongside the tensions inherent in guarding against such a
permanent threat. A work of variations and possibilities, we hear
the thoughts of those involved who are trying to understand and
justify their roles. We examine the lives of civilians who are not
aware of the impending danger, as well as those who are. We listen
to the whirring minds of machines; to the voice of the bomb itself.
We spy on enemy agents: always there, always somewhere close at
hand. Assurances is an intimate, dramatic work for many voices:
lyrical, anxious, fragmentary and terrifying; a poem about the
nuclear stalemate, the deterrent that is still in place today: how
it works and how it might fail, and what will vanish if it does.
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