Then the War: And Selected Poems 2007-2020 by Carl Philips Andrew McMillan - Tristram Fane Saunders

- Tristram Fane Saunders

Mark Mace Smith

In this new symphonic collection

whereby non-material things – air

genial tone

Then the War: And Selected Poems 2007-2020 by Carl Philips Andrew McMillan - Tristram Fane SaundersThen the War and Selected Poems, 20072020 is two books in one: a representative selection from seven of Carl Phillips's innovative earlier collections and a complete new book of poems, providing a powerful introduction to European readers. A seemingly gentle but resolute attention to the things of this world evokes the joyful and painful elements in the contemporary human condition, characterised by loneliness and an unquenchable thirst for love. He