Dad, Remember You Are Dead by Jacqueline Saphra John T Gilmore Published Feb 2018

Published Feb 2018

Each poem is carefully modulated to achieve the desired effect

set the rule books on fire

pensions and public spending have led to political paralysis

displaced from their familiar mythology and recast as British soldiers on the Western Front

Dad, Remember You Are Dead by Jacqueline Saphra John T Gilmore Published Feb 2018Jacqueline Saphra will follow her critically acclaimed, T. S. Eliot Prize shortlisted All My Mad Mothers (2017) with Dad, Remember You Are Dead, a sister volume to her previous collection, taking on the canon in an examination of fatherhood and daughterhood within a wider context. Praise for Dad, Remember You Are Dead: 'The purifying and cathartic fire of anger gives astonishing power to these poems as Saphra evokes her father with mordant wit and