How to burn a woman by Claire Askew Philip Gross slow lives have always demanded

slow lives have always demanded our careful consideration (indeed Virginia Woolf’s Orlando took 300 years over their own quercian epic)

departure - the ghost lands - the burning - mirror - the fading

and Ethiopia’s Christian relics are pillaged by Victorian imperialists ('The Gap')

immanent and on the threshold of a magical or imaginative transformation

and this long poem is animated by his recollection of what life was and never will be again

How to burn a woman by Claire Askew Philip Gross slow lives have always demandedClaire Askews electrifying second collection is an investigation of power: the power of oppressive systems and their hold over those within them; the power of resilience; the power of the human heart. It licks flame across the imagination, and rewrites narratives of human desire. It is a collection for anyone who has ever run through their life backwards in the dark, with no map these bright poems illuminate the way. How to burn a woman throngs with