Silk Work by Imogen Cassels membership "In these poems

"In these poems

O’Brien is WH Auden’s true inheritor

she grew up in the States but lived in Britain for most of her adult life

of trying to become a parent in modern Britain

I admire this book for how it registers the weight of the world

Silk Work by Imogen Cassels membership "In these poemsIn 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