Far District by Ishion Hutchinson Carol Ann Duffy ultimately reaching out and speaking

ultimately reaching out and speaking to the child in all of us

engaging collection from a poet unafraid to chart a course through purposefully ambiguous tributaries

a logical and curious child adrift in an arbitrary world

– Alissa Bennett

Far District by Ishion Hutchinson Carol Ann Duffy ultimately reaching out and speakingFar District, the transporting debut from the author of House of Lords and Commons, is structured as the spiritual journey of a poetspeaker caught between two cultures. As childhood memory is grafted to the world of imagination shaped by books, art, music and travel the two come together to develop a new vision of what home might offer. At once biography and autobiography, generous with its thinking and observations the poems are urgent, authentic,