Lapwing by Hannah Copley
Poetry Book Society Recommendation Summer 2024 Fred D’Aguiar The poem wants to know

The poem wants to know what it can't yet know

unafraid to expose the fragility and vulnerability that come with life’s experiences

'Repeat until Time' begins with a move to California and unfolds into an essay on repetition and returning home

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Lapwing by Hannah Copley<br><b>Poetry Book Society Recommendation Summer 2024</b> Fred D’Aguiar The poem wants to knowMigrating across voices and blurring the divide between bird and human, self and other, Hannah Copleys Lapwing explores restlessness, love, and ecological and personal grief in a vivid and incantatory sequence of poems. A lyrical biography of a bird and a fragmented study of a flawed and mutable creature bearing its name, Copleys second collection takes inspiration from John Gowers brid falseste of alle and its many literary guises. At the heart of