Beginnings & Other Tragedies by Ilaria Boffa John Keats Joseph Minden's debut collection Poppy

Joseph Minden's debut collection Poppy is a research trip to the battlefields of Flanders and the Somme

and as WIDE as the WORLD is LONG

" Ilya Kaminsky

this volume now brings together all of the poet’s work that we have been able to gather: work published subsequent to the 2004 volume

unfailingly humane and often funny

Beginnings & Other Tragedies by Ilaria Boffa John Keats Joseph Minden's debut collection PoppyBeginnings & Other Tragedies is a powerful book length poem, offering a choral experience of a present future where almost all hope seems lost except for that offered by poetry itself, and the "beginners" who care about our planet and dream of making a change. In the background, the landscape of Venice, the sinking city. Drawing on nature poetry, dystopian fiction and Greek tragedy, Ilaria Boffa reimagines scientific and ecological language as sites