Sometimes I Never Suffered by Shane McCrae Joseph Woods Steeped in war and cultural

Steeped in war and cultural upheaval and wielding a fresh new language

As complex themes of multilingualism

quite suddenly

Hannah Bagshaw

Sometimes I Never Suffered by Shane McCrae Joseph Woods Steeped in war and culturalShortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 'Out of personal history, out of the history of an enduringly fractured nation, and out of the deep history of language, Shane McCrae is writing the most urgent, electric poems of his generation' Garth Greenwell 'Shane McCrae is one of our best, a great poet who mines the rhythms and vernacular of America, excavating the most exquisite of poems. His work is risky, not risque; intelligent, not clever; deep, not