Beginnings & Other Tragedies by Ilaria Boffa John Keats Joseph Minden's debut collection Poppy

Joseph Minden's debut collection Poppy is a research trip to the battlefields of Flanders and the Somme

unfailingly humane and often funny

Each essay encourages experimentation whilst also supplying plenty of practical tips and guidance

but relevant

when round the bend beside a stream

Beginnings & Other Tragedies by Ilaria Boffa John Keats Joseph Minden's debut collection PoppyBeginnings & Other Tragedies is a powerful book length poem, offering a choral experience of a present future where almost all hope seems lost except for that offered by poetry itself, and the "beginners" who care about our planet and dream of making a change. In the background, the landscape of Venice, the sinking city. Drawing on nature poetry, dystopian fiction and Greek tragedy, Ilaria Boffa reimagines scientific and ecological language as sites