After the Formalities Clara Janès Jon Hendricks

Jon Hendricks

Nouri al-Jarrah

Despite the increase in literature since it was first published

Andy Croft

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After the Formalities Clara Janès Jon HendricksA knife is pulled. An Uber driver is racially abused on the day of the Brexit referendum. A father bathes his son in ice water. A schoolboy drives a drawing pin into a map of the world. The threat of violence is never far away in Anthony Anaxagorou's breakthrough collection After the Formalities. Technically achieved, emotionally transformative and razor sharp, these are poems that confront and contradict; poems in which the scholarly synthesises with