Selected Poems by Jamie McKendrick Yang Lian Jack Mapanje

Jack Mapanje

"Blackthorn" (1994) and "Nantucket and the Angel" (1997)

drawing on seven collections that represent half a century of writing

I can think of few other books that have given me so much delight so easily

‘’”I will be electric in the sweet world”

Selected Poems by Jamie McKendrick Yang Lian Jack MapanjePBS Special Commendation Summer 2016 Drawn from thirty years of work, this selection, made by the poet himself, gathers from the best of Jamie McKendrick's six acclaimed collections, including some translations, from 1991's debut The Sirocco Roomto Out There (2012, and winner of the Hawthornden Prize) by way of The Marble Fly (1997), winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection, and Ink Stone, shortlisted for both the T. S. Eliot Prize and the