The Channel by Jana Prikryl George Szirtes inhabit “a geography of the

inhabit “a geography of the dead

Jutland brings together two contrasting poem sequences by ‘this brilliant lyricist of human darkness’ (Fiona Sampson)

Yet what she loves

of not-this-time

Hafsa Bukhary

The Channel by Jana Prikryl George Szirtes inhabit “a geography of theJana Prikryl's poems contend with displacement and domestic upheaval in a style both fluid and inexorable. The Channel, the poet's fourth collection and her UK debut, is in deep conversation with King Lear, listening for Cordelia as a person banished from home, whose nearest relations know love only as a form of control. The play depends on her silence, but outside of the play her voice may make us audible to ourselves. The book thinks, brilliantly