Music for the Dead and Resurrected by Valzhyna Mort Christopher Whyte and composed throughout in sapphics

and composed throughout in sapphics – in English

‘A single crow falling from the mind’ of the poet is something awkward left at our feet

She’s smoking a joint

each poem is a defiant flare of hope that change is still possible

Music for the Dead and Resurrected by Valzhyna Mort Christopher Whyte and composed throughout in sapphicsWINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL GRIFFIN PRIZEA NEW YORK TIMES BEST POETRY BOOK OF 2020 Music for the Dead and Resurrected captures the complexity of living in the shadows of imperial force, of the vulnerability of bodies, of seeing with more than the eyes. Valzhyna Mort's work is characterised by a memorial sensibility that honours those lost to the violences of nation states. In Music for the Dead and Resurrected the poet offers us a body of work which