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Foretokens
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- Book Synopsis
- 'Howe is peerless and I look at her work, happily, with awe' OCEAN VUONG A landmark new collection from T. S. Eliot Prize-winner Sarah Howe, navigating the complex inheritance of family, language and colonialism - and forming a portrait of a mother in search of her past and herself. 'Unearthed in a clear-out, a picture calendar she's kept - hoarding, I've learnt, is a mark of the emigrant - across continents and time.' So begins Sarah Howe's extraordinary new collection, returning to the riddle of belonging she explored in her award-winning debut, Loop of Jade. At the heart is her own mother's clouded past: abandoned as a baby and taken in, at the turbulent dawn of Communist China, by a woman with her own hidden motives. Now a mother herself, Howe finds herself re-examining this unreliable narrative with fresh sight. Sifting through her own history, the poet asks, how can a new generation transform a shattered inheritance? And what is lost and gained in the pursuit? Foretokens is a monumental work of survival and creation, turning over what is left behind as it strikes out towards astonishing new vistas. 'Foretokens arrives . . . as a kind of literary event . . . It's a work of supreme concision. Not a word is out of place' Lucy Thynne, Telegraph
- About The Author
- Sarah Howe is a British poet, academic and editor. Born in Hong Kong to an English father and Chinese mother, she moved to England as a child. Her pamphlet, A Certain Chinese Encyclopedia, won an Eric Gregory Award, and her first collection, Loop of Jade (Chatto & Windus, 2015), won the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. In 2014, she co-founded Prac Crit, an online journal of poetry and criticism. She is currently the Poetry Editor at Chatto & Windus and an Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of Liverpool.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781784746131
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus, (02 October 2025)
- Number of Pages
- 128
- Weight
- 113 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 215 x 135 x 7 mm
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