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Tigress, Paperback / softback Book

Tigress Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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Jessica Mookherjee, highly commended in the 2017 Forward Prizes, presents her second collection of poems, Tigress.

Mixing myth, magic and migration, these poems explore the impact of choice upon our lives and concentrate their magnificent, kaleidoscopic imagination on the intricate and often fraught nature of childhood and family, selfhood and womanhood.

Fierce, often funny, always charged and revealing, Mookerjee’s acute attention to detail tracks lives lived between Bengal, Wales and London.

In exploring the intense displacement and loss that marks the experience of migration, the poems move into territories of danger and safety, illness and heartbreak, and ultimately into self-discovery; a rich and sensual moonlit menagerie of bears, big cats, wolves, and ‘forest mothers’.

At every step, Tigress is wildly inventive, elegant and utterly distinctive.

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