But & Though

by Jake Hawkey

Overview

A scintillating debut meditating on love, parental addiction and loss, from a new voice in British poetry.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781035048113
Publisher:	Pan Macmillan
Publication date:	02/27/2025
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	112
File size:	661 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

But & Though is the debut poetry collection by south London poet Jake Hawkey. Jake Hawkey was born in 1990 and grew up in Woolwich. He studied Fine Art at the University of Westminster and holds an MA in Poetry from Queen’s University, Belfast. His moving and hard-hitting collection grew out of an investigation into addiction within families for his PhD research, informed by his own experience of south London’s socio-political class dynamics. Hawkey’s poems are published in several journals and anthologies, including Hold Open the Door (UCD, 2020), The Honest Ulsterman and Proletarian Poetry. He has had sculpture works commissioned and has read his poems internationally, including on Beale Street, Tennessee, and at L’Abri Fellowship, Massachusetts. He was selected for Poetry Ireland’s Introductions series in 2020. His chapbook Breeze Block appeared from Lumpen/The Class Work Project in 2020.