Silk Work Volker Braun Suhaiymah’s debut collection is ready

Suhaiymah’s debut collection is ready and raring to enter the world

campaigner for human rights and perpetrator of the greatest act of literary forgery in European history

hitch-hiking

a rapid-fire elegy for the revolutionary spirit

‘I’m weary lying here among distant peoples

Silk Work Volker Braun Suhaiymah’s debut collection is readyIn Silk Work, Imogen Cassels debut collection, desire and grief are a double edged subject, elucidated through a kind of lyric diffidence. Forms, translations, folksongs, geographies of longing, and the work of memory are interplayed, though always with the haunting implication that the words we use to document our lives are never quite enough. As they weave multiple sources from literature, philosophy, visual art and history into ways of reading and