Turn Up the Ocean by Tony Hoagland Sohini Basak Her poems describe the degradation

Her poems describe the degradation of humanistic values and the different ways in which the individual is threatened

Luke XV and Luke X

Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection

of whom Edith Sitwell and Lynette Roberts are among the most exuberant

on 22 February 1955

Turn Up the Ocean by Tony Hoagland Sohini Basak Her poems describe the degradationAmericas Tony Hoagland (1953 2018) was known for provocative poems which interrogate human nature and contemporary culture with an intimate and wild urgency, located somewhere between outrage, stand up comedy, and grief. The poems in his final collection Turn Up the Ocean examine with an unflinching eye and mordant humour the reality of living and dying in a time and culture that conspire to erase our inner lives. Hoaglands signature wit and