Branches of a House by Agnieszka Studzinska Penny Boxall She believes that poetry records

She believes that poetry records the experience of one’s time and insists that it is ‘not a series of events

rising from a post-2008 London

journeying

these exacting poems make for a sophisticated debut which reconfigures experiences of family history

Branches of a House by Agnieszka Studzinska Penny Boxall She believes that poetry recordsBranches of a House, Agnieszka Studziskas third collection, encounters the hauntings of dislocation and home. The odd, unfixed status of assumed reality of immediate and distant circumstances is acknowledged in obscured, absent houses and in the boundaries of dwelling. The poems are built from the gaps in remembering, and form a longing to find, in Gaston Bachelard s words, our corner of the world. They demand yet distill in their archeology, the