Routes Jennifer Hayashida

Routes Jennifer HayashidaAt the core of this debut collection is a question what is worth holding onto? Through poetic experiments that blend the academic and the artistic, Rhiya Pau queries complex characters and tender landscapes. Routes journeys from Bas kitchen in Sonia Gardens to Independence hour in Delhi, across the pink shores of Nakuru, to meet a painter on Lee High Road. Celebrating fifty years since her community arrived in the UK, Pau chronicles the migratory

pace and assurance that never lets up

The collection stretches

They are a curation of silly tales that have been illustrated and bound into a book

It seeds the countries of the world with words from elsewhere

from where they have lain at rest beside Hadrian’s Wall for eighteen centuries

Barokka's poems are every bit as alarming

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Timothy Adès on Colin Sydenham's Horace

a train trip

But their holiday is cut short when forces unknown destroy the robot convoy they were meant to be guarding

this is the finest work to date from a writer hailed as one of the very best modern Irish poets

and Itzig Manger (1901-69) who wrote in Yiddish in his wanderings across the world