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Exquisite' (New Yorker), breathtaking' (Los Angeles Times), baroque and moon-lit' (Boston Globe) House of Lords and Commons enthralled readers in the Americas when it recently appeared, winning the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry and being widely applauded in books of the year'. No wonder this first British publication is a significant and much anticipated event.

Ishion Hutchinson's book is a profound engagement with culture and landscape, seascape and language, inheritance and race. It speaks as its title implies to a pursuit of justice and rebalance of a world in which lords and commoners must live side by side, and where the distance between those who have' and those who have not' is a more breaching and surprising journey than we perhaps once thought.

The poems convey the complex allure of Hutchinson's native Jamaican landscape, and the violent forces that shaped its history, with remarkable lyric precision. But they sp

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      Publisher: Faber & Faber
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 05/07/2018
      ISBN13: 9780571347759, 978-0571347759
      ISBN10: 0571347754
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      Book Synopsis

      Exquisite' (New Yorker), breathtaking' (Los Angeles Times), baroque and moon-lit' (Boston Globe) House of Lords and Commons enthralled readers in the Americas when it recently appeared, winning the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry and being widely applauded in books of the year'. No wonder this first British publication is a significant and much anticipated event.

      Ishion Hutchinson's book is a profound engagement with culture and landscape, seascape and language, inheritance and race. It speaks as its title implies to a pursuit of justice and rebalance of a world in which lords and commoners must live side by side, and where the distance between those who have' and those who have not' is a more breaching and surprising journey than we perhaps once thought.

      The poems convey the complex allure of Hutchinson's native Jamaican landscape, and the violent forces that shaped its history, with remarkable lyric precision. But they sp

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