Sasha Dugdale Libri

This fifth Carcanet collection from the author of Joy (title poem won Forward Prize for Best Single Poem).

Evokes the ghosts and presences that flit about on the margins of our lives. This title traces the shapes that they leave through folk song, lament and lyric poetry.

Dugdale's Forward-prize-winning 'joy' gives its title to this major collection of long poems and sequences.

The Strongbox, a modernist poem, is an extended work that develops elements of Greek mythology, epic literature and the cultures of wars, both ancient and painfully recent.