Deluge by Charlotte Ansell
PBS Winter Recommendation 2019 The House of Ghosts and Mirrors If I were to predict

If I were to predict a future Nobel Prize winner in literature

these are poems all about hope

The spotlight in this beautifully honed collection falls on fatherhood

told in a series of visionary prose poems

‘When I say this book is exactly my cup of tea it’s not just because Lesley Saunders and I share a classical background

Deluge by Charlotte Ansell <b><br>PBS Winter Recommendation 2019</b> The House of Ghosts and Mirrors If I were to predictDeluge by Charlotte Ansell, as with her previous work, displays an unerring emotional honesty. Confronting displacement, ageing, therapy, family, as well as social shifts like gentrification, Charlotte draws perspective from the community she lives in and distils it into the stunning exhortations and vignettes that make up this collection. Having moved from boat moorings in London to boat moorings in Sheffield, Deluge nods to the change with poems