Deformations by Sasha Dugdale Zeina Hashem Beck following the best available medical

following the best available medical advice

Each poem deploys a forensic precision: vivid images

wry and true about topics usually either ignored or obscured with greyness and cliché

they are in the process of developing a new language (languages

these poems surprise yet are always deeply humane

Deformations by Sasha Dugdale Zeina Hashem Beck following the best available medicalShortlisted 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