Velvel's Violin by Jacqueline Saphra
POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION AUTUMN 2023
Anthony Rudolf yet offering new kinds of

yet offering new kinds of fellowship and connection in an age of individualism and rootlessness

      Atlantic – now churning up an army of wild horses

Whether ‘trespassing’ into the ‘rickety barn’ of fatherhood or acquiescing in a wood’s ‘rough shelter’

once again showcases Ashbery’s mastery of a staggering range of voices and his singular lyric agility: wry

L'Abbé Guillaume Massieu

Velvel's Violin by Jacqueline Saphra<br><b>POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION AUTUMN 2023</b><br> Anthony Rudolf yet offering new kinds ofVelvels Violin, a deeply moving and political fifth collection by TS Eliot Prize shortlisted poet Jacqueline Saphra places us on the shifting ground between past and present. Through its search for missing histories of the Jewish diaspora, the book is a call for empathy and a warning to a world where the legacy of the Holocaust echoes current narratives of prejudice, war, displacement, and migration. Saphras precisely tuned writing ranges through