Leaning Against Time: Selected Poems by SuAndi Jack Underwood driven by a desire for

driven by a desire for disappearance

This is a powerful yet tender collection from a writer whose name may be familiar as winner of the European Union Prize for Literature in 2011 but whose unique poetic voice is little-known outside Malta

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Leaning Against Time: Selected Poems by SuAndi Jack Underwood driven by a desire forThis is the first substantial selection of poems by SuAndi, whose work as performer, writer for stage and arts curator has recently been celebrated by the award of the Benson Medal by the Royal Society of Literature, of which she is an honorary fellow, for services to literature across her career, which recognised her poems fierce, vividly powerful and dramatic depictions of womens lives in Manchester, the city she grew up in and of Black communities