Near-Life Experience by Rowland Bagnall Alison Brackenbury won both Rathbone Folio Prize

won both Rathbone Folio Prize and the Ted Hughes Award

and a Book of the Year in the Telegraph

essential collection drawn from the poet's experience of the Baddawi refugee camp in Lebanon

resumes the work of making present signatures of persons often missing from the record

Mohyuddin portrays what it is to be displaced

Near-Life Experience by Rowland Bagnall Alison Brackenbury won both Rathbone Folio PrizeStrike up music! Scope tomorrows printless straits! I slice the tomatoes, saving their skins their seeds freckle the countertop. No ideas but in No ideas but in things tell me about it The poems in Near Life Experience are curious about the present moment, its weather and animals, its objects and things. They want to make it real in language, catching it before it vanishes. Documenting landscapes, paintings, insects and trees, Near Life Experience