Egrets, While War by Tishani Doshi Jackie Kay Your promise has been extractedÂ

Your promise has been extracted is Ahren Warner’s third collection of poems

Louis Bailey

In Amsterdam in 2002

to Counteract Sorrow

The poet’s failure to write “a real love poem” and a childhood memory of near-accidental loss of eyesight are both

Egrets, While War by Tishani Doshi Jackie Kay Your promise has been extractedÂShortlisted for The Forward Prize for Best Collection 2026 Egrets, While War is a lyric field guide to grief and resilience, where attention becomes a form of devotion, and intimacy, a quiet resistance. The poems in Tishani Doshis fifth collection navigate the deep entanglements between environmental loss, ancestral memory, the slow transformations of ageing, and the devastations of war. Birds appear throughout these pages, not simply as subjects but