**SHORTLISTED FOR THE T.S. ELIOT PRIZE 2021** *A FINANCIAL TIMES
'BOOKS OF 2021' PICK* Ransom, the new collection from Michael
Symmons Roberts, is an intense and vivid exploration of liberty and
limit, of what it means to be alive, and searches for the
possibility of hope in a fallen, wounded world. The poems in Ransom
display all the lyrical beauty and metaphysical ambition for which
his work is acclaimed, but with a new urgency, a ragged edge to
what the Independent described as his 'dazzling elegance'. At the
heart of this new book are three powerful sequences - one set in
occupied Paris, one an elegy for his father, and one a meditation
on gratitude - that work at the edges of belief and doubt, both
mystical and philosophical. The idea of 'ransom' is turned and
turned again, poem by poem, seen through the lenses of personal
grief and loss, cinematic scenes of kidnap and release, narratives
of incarnation and atonement. This is a profound and timely book
from one of our finest poets.
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