Silk Work by Imogen Cassels Linda Black ” writes Abu Al-Hayyat

” writes Abu Al-Hayyat

Being Alive is the sequel to Neil Astley’s Staying Alive

and of the analytic approach to say anything useful about what we are to one another

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Silk Work by Imogen Cassels Linda Black ” writes Abu Al-HayyatIn Silk Work, Imogen Cassels' debut collection, desire and grief are a double edged subject, elucidated through a kind of lyric diffidence. Forms, translations, folksongs, geographies of longing, and the work of memory are interplayed, though always with the haunting implication that the words we use to document our lives are never quite enough. As they weave multiple sources from literature, philosophy, visual art and history into ways of reading and