Citizens Julia Darling of the beauty of the

of the beauty of the crooked basket

Three years in the making

which – together with the English translations by poet Lesley Saunders – enable an anglophone readership to acquire a sense of the formal

comedy sits alongside tragedy

How does it feel to be a foreigner

Citizens Julia Darling of the beauty of thePossibly the only poet to have published poems in the TLS and the Morning Star on the same day, Ian Parks new collection is a book about the tensions between poetry and politics, the spoken and the unspoken, the public and the private. Accompanied by the ghosts of Ella Fitzgerald, Honeyboy Edwards and the Chartist Poets Ebenezer Elliott and Ernest Jones, Parks listens to the language of the lost and dispossessed as he explores sites of painful