Silk Work by Imogen Cassels Writers & Artists Pilgrim Bell's linguistic rigour is

Pilgrim Bell's linguistic rigour is tuned to the register of this moment and any moment

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Silk Work by Imogen Cassels Writers & Artists Pilgrim Bell's linguistic rigour isIn Silk Work, Imogen Cassels' debut collection, desire and grief are a double edged subject, elucidated through a kind of lyric diffidence. Forms, translations, folksongs, geographies of longing, and the work of memory are interplayed, though always with the haunting implication that the words we use to document our lives are never quite enough. As they weave multiple sources from literature, philosophy, visual art and history into ways of reading and