Latch by Rebecca Goss poetlaureates When this boy is angry

When this boy is angry

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as Audre Lorde writes

and abstract

was awarded the prestigious Awater Poetry Prize in 2011

Latch by Rebecca Goss poetlaureates When this boy is angryLatch is a study in the act of returning. It is about reconnecting to a place, Suffolk, and understanding what it once held, and what it now holds for a woman and her family. These poems unearth the deep, lasting attachments people have with the East Anglian countryside, gathering voices of labour, love and loss proving a landscape can both harm and heal us. In this landscape, and in her fourth full length collection, Rebecca Goss again draws on her