With My Back to the World by Victoria Chang Mark Ford breathing humanity and compassion into

breathing humanity and compassion into the anonymity of hospital life (and death)

the poems within this collection grapple with the reality and taboo of loneliness pitted against an anxiety of connecting

histoire d’avouer que tout entre nous n’a pas été si ensoleillé qu’on se plaisait

Keith Hutson’s debut collection

With My Back to the World by Victoria Chang Mark Ford breathing humanity and compassion into'Chang has liberated the Ekphrastic form to new lyric heights and depths. Inventive, meditative, audacious, strange and soulful. A marvel of a collection that engages the eye and mind as much as the ear and heart' Raymond Antrobus Yesterday I slung my depression on my back and went to the museum. I only asked four attendants where the Agnes painting was and the fifth one knew. I walked into the room and saw it right away. From afar, it was a large