Before We Go Any Further by Tristram Fane Saunders Sumita Chakraborty I’d never thought before to

I’d never thought before to ask its name

luminous and sensuous

—Martyn Crucefix

Rudy's work rises above the chaos to offer a fresh and positive perspective of shared humanity and beauty

Before We Go Any Further by Tristram Fane Saunders Sumita Chakraborty I’d never thought before toIn Before We Go Any Further, Tristram Fane Saunders' first book, readers are introduced to a gifted new writer, a poet whose ingenious forms dazzle even as the poems' darker themes resonate. Drawing on a delicious, unconventional sense of rhyme and rhythm, the poems conjure a recognizably contemporary London as they map the ways we try to communicate with each other across real and imagined distances. Sphinxes and sea creatures, sleepwalkers and