Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Poetry Prize 2021. Shortlisted
for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2020. Deformations includes two
large-scale works related in their preoccupation with biographical
and mythical narrative. 'Welfare Handbook' explores the life and
art of Eric Gill, the well-known English letter cutter, sculptor
and cultural figure, who is known to have sexually abused his
daughters. The poem draws on material from Gill's letters, diaries,
notes and essays as part of a lyrical exploration of the
conjunction between aesthetics, subjectivity and violence.
'Pitysad' is a series of simultaneously occurring fragments
composed around themes and characters from Homer's Odyssey. It
considers how trauma is disguised and deformed through myth and
art. Acting as a bridge between these two works is a series of
individual poems on the creation and destruction of cultural and
mythical conventions.
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