Living by Troubled Waters by Roy McFarlane Wayne Holloway-Smith humour and angst

humour and angst

this collection raises serious questions and seeks to capture the energy of Rojava

translated by David McDuff and published by Bloodaxe in 2010 as Tarkovsky’s Horses and other poems

but there is no poetry like his for the constant engendering of hope

it pursues that book’s fascination with history and with theology

Living by Troubled Waters by Roy McFarlane Wayne Holloway-Smith humour and angstLiving by Troubled Waters is the third poetry collection by Roy McFarlane an extraordinary, uncompromising book exploring slavery, colonialism, and the continued tragedies visited upon Black bodies whilst these legacies remain unresolved. In his close examination of the horror of racialised violence, McFarlane examines how the strong currents of the past and present flow side by side. His poems ask us to think about the Black Mediterranean of today as