Cain Named The Animal by Shane McCrae Robert Fitterman Adrianne Kalfopoulou

Adrianne Kalfopoulou

For around fifteen centuries Welsh poets have expressed an intense awareness of what it is like to be human in this part of the world in poems of extraordinary range and depth

and Nabokov all feature in these pages

These poems course through sonnets and ghazals

Cain Named The Animal by Shane McCrae Robert Fitterman Adrianne KalfopoulouIn McCraes hands, poetry is reclamation. It is also transport: writing a way out and through Kate Kellaway, GuardianConfirms McCrae as one of the most erudite and inventive poets of our time Kit Fan, GuardianWriting you I give the death I takeI know I should feel wounded by your deathI write to you to make a wound write backShane McCrae fashions a world of endings and infinites in Cain Named the Animal. With cyclical, rhythmic lines that create and