White Ghosts by Katie Hale Annie Freud He’s a couple of years

He’s a couple of years older

I was reminded throughout of Ken Smith’s lonely sequences – the fragmentation and moments of intense lyricism

It is a call that echoes through Luke Thompson’s first collection

political and economic systems is exposed through searing remembrances of the lost

She is a flamboyant

White Ghosts by Katie Hale Annie Freud He’s a couple of yearsWhite Ghosts, the debut collection by poet and novelist Katie Hale, traces maternal lines, and the legacies of slavery and whiteness interwoven into the fabric of America, through revealing, unflinching poems. Travelling deep into an intimate history that spans both sides of the Atlantic, Hale unravels the language haunting those narratives we choose to tell in official versions through museum labels and civic statues and in handed down stories.