Velvel's Violin by Jacqueline Saphra
POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION AUTUMN 2023
John Glenday these are poems for the

these are poems for the girl-power generation

and the hot terror of damnation burns black in every shadow

Neighbor’s mutable

ambition and content

Each is also an implicit conversation with the poets who came before

Velvel's Violin by Jacqueline Saphra<br><b>POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION AUTUMN 2023</b><br> John Glenday these are poems for theVelvels Violin, a deeply moving and political fifth collection by TS Eliot Prize shortlisted poet Jacqueline Saphra places us on the shifting ground between past and present. Through its search for missing histories of the Jewish diaspora, the book is a call for empathy and a warning to a world where the legacy of the Holocaust echoes current narratives of prejudice, war, displacement, and migration. Saphras precisely tuned writing ranges through