The Wound Register by Esther Morgan Faber & Faber and to be alive today

and to be alive today is to drift in uncertainty

even to ‘wound the language’

desire their own species

Bookending this are selections of newer and older poems

On the Edge of a Sword is a selection of Kristiina Ehin's latest work - deeply personal

The Wound Register by Esther Morgan Faber & Faber and to be alive todayThe Wound Register, or Casualty Book which gives this book its title is an official record of the casualty and sickness details for more than fifteen thousand soldiers of the Norfolk Regiment during the First World War. Written during the conflicts centenary, the poems in Esther Morgans fourth collection apply the concept to her own family history in the aftermath of her great grandfathers death at the Somme. An unflinching sequence written to her