Branches of a House by Agnieszka Studzinska Penny Boxall taking stock of a world

taking stock of a world in turmoil

She believes that poetry records the experience of one’s time and insists that it is ‘not a series of events

these exacting poems make for a sophisticated debut which reconfigures experiences of family history

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Branches of a House by Agnieszka Studzinska Penny Boxall taking stock of a worldBranches of a House, Agnieszka Studziskas third collection, encounters the hauntings of dislocation and home. The odd, unfixed status of assumed reality of immediate and distant circumstances is acknowledged in obscured, absent houses and in the boundaries of dwelling. The poems are built from the gaps in remembering, and form a longing to find, in Gaston Bachelard s words, our corner of the world. They demand yet distill in their archeology, the