The Kingdom by Jane Draycott Danez Smith publishes and tours contemporary poets

publishes and tours contemporary poets from Africa

Through a fresh appreciation of England's lowest and newest landscape

” ~ Sasha Dugdale

Kurdish-led region of Syria known as Rojava

sensed presences and absences

The Kingdom by Jane Draycott Danez Smith publishes and tours contemporary poetsThe Kingdom of Jane Draycotts fifth collection is clearly a world we know, altered a little by Draycotts distinctive, prismatic lyricism, whose loving attention to place and our moment is skewed in a way that opens the world afresh. Here are Englands towns and countryside, roads and ports and sushi chains, yards and herbs, an airport and a columbarium, and poems that consider art in a time of plague by way of meditation on Titian, Apollinaire and