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''An alchemical wonder of a poet'' Fiona Benson, author of Vertigo & Ghost

''Vivid, lyrical, and always surprising . . . Both a balm and a call to action'' Nathan Filer, author of The Shock of the Fall

A sparkling new collection from Romalyn Ante, nurse and prizewinning poet, moving between the Philippines and Wolverhampton, myth and the grind of the present-day NHS.

''this charms the buried light of stars
this deflects bullets this unblooms a war ''

In some Filipino clans, parents pass down to each child an AGIMAT, an amulet, in the hope its magic will protect and empower them. At the dawn of the pandemic, the poet a practising nurse in the NHS is thrown onto the frontlines of the war against COVID-19.

Past conflicts swim into the now. When she falls in love with a man of Japanese heritage, it forces a reckoning with her family's suffering under Japan's brutal wartime occupation of the Philippines. Elsewhere, w

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Vintage Publishing
      Published 9 May 2024
      ISBN-13 9781784745776
      978-1784745776
      ISBN-10 1784745774
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      ''An alchemical wonder of a poet'' Fiona Benson, author of Vertigo & Ghost

      ''Vivid, lyrical, and always surprising . . . Both a balm and a call to action'' Nathan Filer, author of The Shock of the Fall

      A sparkling new collection from Romalyn Ante, nurse and prizewinning poet, moving between the Philippines and Wolverhampton, myth and the grind of the present-day NHS.

      ''this charms the buried light of stars
      this deflects bullets this unblooms a war ''

      In some Filipino clans, parents pass down to each child an AGIMAT, an amulet, in the hope its magic will protect and empower them. At the dawn of the pandemic, the poet a practising nurse in the NHS is thrown onto the frontlines of the war against COVID-19.

      Past conflicts swim into the now. When she falls in love with a man of Japanese heritage, it forces a reckoning with her family's suffering under Japan's brutal wartime occupation of the Philippines. Elsewhere, w

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