Deep Lane by Mark Doty Bloomsbury This second collection

This second collection

the vision of the Grail darkens

Her books often defy categorisation as she fearlessly engages with colonialism and its ongoing and devastating aftermath

as well as poems that serve as a tonic to lift the spirits – the anthology contains poems old and new

Deep Lane by Mark Doty Bloomsbury This second collectionMark Doty's poetry has long been celebrated for its risk and candor, an ability to find transcendent beauty even in the mundane and grievous, an unflinching eye that as Philip Levine says "looks away from nothing." In the poems of Deep Lane the stakes are higher: there is more to lose than ever before, and there is more for us to gain. "Pure appetite," he writes ironically early in the collection, "I wouldn't know anything about that." And the