2016 by Sarah Hesketh Kristine Ong Muslim published by Paragon Press (1994)

published by Paragon Press (1994)

As well as selecting favourite poems from the trilogy – readers’ and writers’ choices as well as his own favourites – editor Neil Astley provides background notes on the poets and poems

its peculiar commitments

winning the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry and being widely applauded in ‘books of the year’

the weight of the personal-present

2016 by Sarah Hesketh Kristine Ong Muslim published by Paragon Press (1994)Published 3rd April 2025. With great craft and care, Sarah Hesketh has assembled a chorus of ordinary voices to tell the story of a year. If Wordsworth thought that poetry was best found in the overflow of "powerful feelings", this book acts as a kind of fever chart for our collective emotions in 2016. Encompassing the election of Trump, the Brexit vote, and the deaths of Jo Cox, David Bowie and Carrie Fisher as well as the death of Hesketh's own