Too Young, Too Loud, Too Different: Poems from Malika's Poetry Kitchen #TSEliotPrize Hutson’s vividly realised portraits bring

Hutson’s vividly realised portraits bring back to life a whole cast of the extraordinary characters who have entertained us for over two centuries

he could be a minimalist version of Ron Silliman or a Basho-inflected George Oppen

and a 'postscript' of newly-translated medieval Italian lyrics relating to Dante and his poem

as the narrator is led on a Dantean journey through sorrow to redemption by his vanished beloved

by the lightest of means

Too Young, Too Loud, Too Different: Poems from Malika's Poetry Kitchen #TSEliotPrize Hutson’s vividly realised portraits bring'We knew that black and brown bodies, working class voices, women's voices, did not have a space where they could be heard and so this writing collective was a necessary and political act' In the early years of the new millennium, poets Malika Booker and Roger Robinson saw the need for a space for writers outside of the establishment to grow, improve, discuss and learn. One Friday night, Malika offered her Brixton kitchen table as a meeting place. And