But & Though by Jake Hawkey Jacqueline Saphra to break detrimental cycles

to break detrimental cycles

and all that we can’t carry

Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize and Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Prize:

A tear-shaped slice of rock crystal enclosed in gold becomes a pointer stick for following words and these words wind around the throat of not only Julian Fellowes on a high steep promontory but many others

But & Though by Jake Hawkey Jacqueline Saphra to break detrimental cyclesIn But & Though, Jake Hawkey scrutinizes the impact of parental addiction on families, its title a nod to the language of dependency, its circles of prevarication and excuse. Hawkey's poems chart the loss of a father and the resilient love between siblings, and take an unflinching look at a parent child relationship sometimes painfully inverted through alcoholism. Hawkey's fresh perspective and playful style introduces a vital, authentic new voice in