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Book SynopsisA TLS, SPECTATOR AND TIME MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023
FINALIST FOR THE NBCC AWARD FOR POETRY 2023
''Celebrating the incredible moral clarity, beauty, fearlessness and power of the spirit of Saskia Hamilton - and of her poetry'' Jorie Graham
''Full of delicate and muscular truths and graced with rare intelligence, this posthumous volume offers the gifts of a uniquely sensitive mind'' Publisher''s Weekly (starred review)
''To read Saskia Hamilton''s opening poem in her forthcoming collection, All Souls, is to move through time in acts of seeing and of noting what is seen . . . For now, the day seems to say, Let the ordinary amaze, it''s the grace we hold . . . Hamilton rests her sights on what can be apprehended from a bed, sofa, chair, or window, and named in the quotidian. These small recognitions ensure a life''s weightiness, wariness, worthiness'' Claudia Rankine
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Trade Review
Full of delicate and muscular truths and graced with rare intelligence, this posthumous volume offers the gifts of a uniquely sensitive mind. * Publisher's Weekly (starred review) *
For [Hamilton], history is made of tiny, intimate moments, and the poems remember the pleasures of museum visits, summer afternoons, conversations with friends... I loved this precise, brave book, and wanted it to keep going -- Daniel Swift * Spectator *
'All Souls is a devastating reminder of one's own mortality, written by a writer who has gone too soon' -- Shannon Carlin * TIME Magazine *
'This posthumously published fifth collection faces both the existential problem of our shared mortality and the poet's own rapidly approaching death with directness and steely grace... A writer of profound literary and emotional intelligence' -- Fiona Sampson * Guardian *
Full of delicate and muscular truths and graced with rare intelligence, this posthumous volume offers the gifts of a uniquely sensitive mind * Publisher's Weekly (starred review) *
Saskia Hamilton is not a quiet poet, just an extremely subtle and fierce one. There is a quality of spiritual stubbornness and astonishing resilience that courses through even her briefest utterances -- Jorie Graham
