Fondue by AK Blakemore ocean vuong the work of a grown-up

the work of a grown-up for grown-ups who will remember what in the nature of things they've had to lose and what nevertheless they seek to celebrate' - Sean O'Brien

Prize-winning poet Ruth Padel’s heartfelt new collection is a grief observed: an elegy for her mother on her death at the age of ninety-seven

'Pascale Petit’s Fauverie is astonishing

“In Angela France’s multiply-layered word-geology of sited memory and belonging

The combination is genius

Fondue by AK Blakemore ocean vuong the work of a grown-up"[A] dazzling and immensely readable collection." Andrew McMillan 'never say the best of summer's gone', the poem asks, a plea for permanence that sustains throughout Fondue, the second collection by A. K. Blakemore. In these louche, candid poems, bearing the marks of Mary Ruefle, Emily Dickinson and The Smiths, the inner life prowls, smoking a cigarette, as the fantasies of sex and violence allowed to play out in the subjugations that have long been