Father's Father's Father

A Poetry Book Society Recommendation Spring 2025
Shortlisted for the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize 2026

Dane Holt’s subject is often the aftermath of tragedy – ecological, personal or social – but these poems grieve in surprising ways. Deflection, displacement and refracted voices combine to animate a world of brilliantly realised situations. And Holt’s characters, though always articulate, do not precisely comprehend their own relation to what they inherit. Compelling, f...