Was It For This by Hannah Sullivan latinamericanpoetry and that considers what it

and that considers what it takes to reconcile being different

a redemptive act where memory has meaning and the heart need never be kept indoors

’ New Statesman

The poet’s failure to write “a real love poem” and a childhood memory of near-accidental loss of eyesight are both

using both traditional and experimental methods

Was It For This by Hannah Sullivan latinamericanpoetry and that considers what itAn exhilarating second collection from the author of Three Poems, winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize and John Pollard Poetry Prize. Was It for This continues the project of Three Poems, offering a trenchant exploration of the ways we attempt to map our lives in space and time. But there is a reckoning, too, with the collective experience of historic event and present disaster. Tenants, the first poem, is fuelled by the particular anxieties of a mother of