The Tattoo Collector by Tim Tim Cheng
Poetry Book Society Winter 2024 Recommendation #Irishpoetry these poems consolidate and extend

these poems consolidate and extend the achievement of one of the country’s most exciting poets

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Martyn Crucefix’s superb new versions in English reflect – for the very first time – the radical fluidity of the original Chinese texts as well as placing the mysterious ‘dark’ feminine power at their heart

The Tattoo Collector by Tim Tim Cheng<br><b>Poetry Book Society Winter 2024 Recommendation</b> #Irishpoetry these poems consolidate and extendI moved to a country called writing declares Tim Tim Cheng in this striking debut collection. The Tattoo Collector explores family history, displacement, politics, protest, and, as it moves between East and West, the uses of language to illustrate and interrogate what lies in between. As these poems range from Hong Kong, Scotland, and London, they unravel the relationship between the body, ecology and class with precise and haunting tenderness. Here,