Beginnings & Other Tragedies by Ilaria Boffa John Keats Needless to say

Needless to say

It is a book to foster a love of words and the power that comes with the spoken word

Joseph Minden's debut collection Poppy is a research trip to the battlefields of Flanders and the Somme

but relevant

unfailingly humane and often funny

Beginnings & Other Tragedies by Ilaria Boffa John Keats Needless to sayBeginnings & Other Tragedies is a powerful book length poem, offering a choral experience of a present future where almost all hope seems lost except for that offered by poetry itself, and the "beginners" who care about our planet and dream of making a change. In the background, the landscape of Venice, the sinking city. Drawing on nature poetry, dystopian fiction and Greek tragedy, Ilaria Boffa reimagines scientific and ecological language as sites