Gongoozler by Joshua Judson Julia Deakin '“Grun-tu-molani” is borrowed from Bellow’s

'“Grun-tu-molani” is borrowed from Bellow’s phrase meaning “man wants to live” and Ravinthiran’s verse seems driven by a comparably urgent impulse

disfigured lives

Harry Clifton has published nine other books of poetry

Fruitcake brings together four poem sequences about motherhood by ‘this brilliant lyricist of human darkness’ (Fiona Sampson)

Gongoozler by Joshua Judson Julia Deakin '“Grun-tu-molani” is borrowed from Bellow’sA new voice that all lovers of poetry should be looking out for. Roger Robinson Pitch perfect poems of youth, of discovering and stretching the limits of the self; full of images which crystallise the beauty of the real. Andrew McMillan Joshua Judsons disarming debut has an acute sense of place: in canal side twitchels and river thrashed hills, in visiting wards and the Co op, in the town of the body. On a mission to escape the self, this speaker