Blind Spots Amjad Nasser hope declines and the future

hope declines and the future is always conditional

‘A writer of outstanding talent

surprises and shocks as one of the world’s most original of storytellers excels in exposing the surreal moments in the ordinary and the mundane

It is a study in faith and disappointment

are the resident ghosts in this delicate apparatus and yet Notes find its own serene voice in the midst of all those masters of silence

Blind Spots Amjad Nasser hope declines and the futureCertain to be one of the most read and talked about poetry collections of the year, Blind Spots is a masterclass of inventive, intelligent, original, and relevant modern poetry. A major voice in contemporary verse, Carol Rumens is admired as much for her technical brilliance as for the range, breadth and subtlety of her subject matter. You might find a sonnet, a sestina, a villanelle but you'll also chance across a pantoum or a ghazal, or a fluid free