Dear, beloved [Limited Edition Signed – Only 100 copies made.] Larissa Miller

Dear, beloved [Limited Edition Signed – Only 100 copies made.] Larissa MillerWe are thrilled to be able to bring you this limited edition pamphlet featuring eight of the poems that are forthcoming in Sumita Chakrabortys debut collection Arrow (Carcanet UK Alice James US, Sept 2020). It is a collection that is set to make huge waves when it lands next year. Sumita was the inaugural Verve Poet of the Festival 2019, and as such was present and participating throughout the four days. Front and centre in the pamphlet is her

and a TRAVELLING TALE from writer and translator Waiel Ashry in the USA Going to Williamsburg

but the discoveries along the way have universal resonance

dramatic and heartwarming true story of a family told from the viewpoint of young Jeanne Sarginson

Other excerpts include:

in a masterful flourish of perspective…’

plunging headfirst into questions of climate change

History rewrites itself

Reporting from Palestine was written from the front line of the conflict between Jews and Arabs

Palestine (the title poem refers to the refusal of the Israeli broadcasting authorities to mention the names of children killed during the Israeli shelling of Gaza in 2014) – to the lives of Rosen’s parents and grandparents – the General Strike

Midtown roof-gardens

crushed sweet almonds

even if it’s only the return from the local grocery store