Silk Work by Imogen Cassels membership "In these poems

"In these poems

of trying to become a parent in modern Britain

— Shahram Khosravi

Winner of the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry

many of these poems respond to a landscape as beautiful as it is disquieting

Silk Work by Imogen Cassels membership "In these poemsIn Silk Work, Imogen Cassels' debut collection, desire and grief are a double edged subject, elucidated through a kind of lyric diffidence. Forms, translations, folksongs, geographies of longing, and the work of memory are interplayed, though always with the haunting implication that the words we use to document our lives are never quite enough. As they weave multiple sources from literature, philosophy, visual art and history into ways of reading and