New Light for the Old Dark

An extraordinary first collection of poems from an assured new writer

Deft, economical, and wonderfully original, this is work that celebrates the peaks and troughs of a lived life, the poems' vivid clarity feeling both fresh and fully earned. It is rare to find an unknown poet of such mature quality, and New Light for the Old Dark represents a brilliant dawning. In a book deeply conscious of history, one series of poems tracks his mother's escape, as a young girl, from the Nazis, in a narra...