City of Departures by Helen Tookey Ahren Warner as a combination of sadness

as a combination of sadness and courage

hopes and disappointments experienced by immigrants

homosexuals and political dissidents were transported to extermination camps

namely the poet’s late father

City of Departures by Helen Tookey Ahren Warner as a combination of sadnessShortlisted for The 2019 Forward Prize for Best Collection City of Departures is Helen Tookeys second Carcanet collection, following her 2014 Missel Child, an exceptional volume from a powerful and intelligent imagination (Jeffrey Wainwright). City of Departures is a collection of uncanny spaces and fleeting encounters, an urban patchwork of glimpsed moments and chance affiliations. Through them, Tookey explores the ways in which we create meaning and