The Tattoo Collector by Tim Tim Cheng
Poetry Book Society Winter 2024 Recommendation Michael Mackmin Ruth Padel presents a triptych

Ruth Padel presents a triptych of interlocking sequences

Fire is seen as an element

the surrealist Robert Desnos

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The Tattoo Collector by Tim Tim Cheng<br><b>Poetry Book Society Winter 2024 Recommendation</b> Michael Mackmin Ruth Padel presents a triptychI moved to a country called writing declares Tim Tim Cheng in this striking debut collection. The Tattoo Collector explores family history, displacement, politics, protest, and, as it moves between East and West, the uses of language to illustrate and interrogate what lies in between. As these poems range from Hong Kong, Scotland, and London, they unravel the relationship between the body, ecology and class with precise and haunting tenderness. Here,