The Channel by Jana Prikryl George Szirtes “Jacques Darras has always been

“Jacques Darras has always been unique among his French contemporaries in that his poetry

In Republic offensive attacks on the Welsh (and Welsh language) are dissected with satirical humour and an appalled fascination

Jutland brings together two contrasting poem sequences by ‘this brilliant lyricist of human darkness’ (Fiona Sampson)

or a way of life

its themes are major and urgent: the decolonisation of the mind

The Channel by Jana Prikryl George Szirtes “Jacques Darras has always beenJana Prikryl's poems contend with displacement and domestic upheaval in a style both fluid and inexorable. The Channel, the poet's fourth collection and her UK debut, is in deep conversation with King Lear, listening for Cordelia as a person banished from home, whose nearest relations know love only as a form of control. The play depends on her silence, but outside of the play her voice may make us audible to ourselves. The book thinks, brilliantly