Peter Boyle, Companions, Ancestors, Inscriptions Mya Kabyar (b

Mya Kabyar (b

Hecate and Jacket

This is a remarkable book in which a form of différance works in each poem and across the whole — the act of creating poems becomes part of the meaning of the world seen around the poet

And haunting every step is the recognition that if ‘[h]istory is ecology’

Peter Boyle, Companions, Ancestors, Inscriptions Mya Kabyar (bShortlisted for the 2025 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Poetry 'A dazzling work of the imagination by a mature poet working at the height of his powers, Peter Boyles Companions, Ancestors, Inscriptions is a book that light[s] the darkness at both ends. Its central sequence of narrative prose poems transports us to a wondrous archipelago of ancestral spirits who sleep outside the folds of their own skin, grow transparent at different times of day