Self-portrait as a diviner, failing

Self-portrait as a diviner, failing won our 2018 Poetry Pamphlet Prize.

A collection about heritage, apartheid, segregation; Self-portrait as a diviner, failing has real finesse. The poet lures in the reader, there is a sense of fore-boding from the start, a dark uneasiness.The pamphlet spans 85 years, taking the reader from Lithuania on the Veld, South Africa in 1931 to the United Kingdom of 2016 and carries the reader in the ‘weight of blood.

Abegail Morley

36 pages

£5.00