One Language By Anastasia Taylor-Lind Carol Ann Duffy build imaginative inferences and speculations

build imaginative inferences and speculations

Featuring poems by Claudia Rankine

pathos and humour

It is a triumph of imagination that she is able to empathise with other forms of oppression

It forms a sequel to Seán Ó Tuama and Thomas Kinsella’s pioneering anthology

One Language By Anastasia Taylor-Lind Carol Ann Duffy build imaginative inferences and speculationsOne Language is a remarkable debut collection. From the perspective of a female photojournalist, these concise but complex and insightful poems draw on first hand experience of war to explore how damage is generated and perpetuated. The books title expresses the contradiction between the lingua franca of photography and the equally universal language of violence. One Language comes to an understanding of personal history and global conflict in poetry