At the heart of ‘Brother Poem’ is a sequence addressed to a fictional brother. Through these fragments, Will Harris attempts to reckon with the past while mourning what never existed. The text moves, cloud-like, through states of consciousness, beings and geographies, to create a moving portrait of contemporary anxieties around language and the need to communicate. With pronominal shifts, broken dialogisms, and obsessive feedback loops, it reflects on the fictions we tell ourselves, and in our attempts to live up to the demands of others. From a dimension uncannily like our own, intuited through signs, whispers, and glitches, ‘Brother Poem’ is shadowed by the loss of what can’t be seen.

Author Will Harris Published by Granta Poetry ISBN 9781915051042 EAN 9781915051042 Bic Code DC Cover Paperback