Three Poems

<b>WINNER OF THE 2018 T S ELIOT PRIZE FOR POETRY</b><br><br>Hannah Sullivan's debut collection is a revelation - three long poems of fresh ambition intensity and substance. Though each poem stands apart their inventive and looping encounters make for a compelling unity. 'You Very Young in New York' captures a great American city in all its alluring detail. It is a wry and tender study of romantic possibility disappointment and the obduracy of innocence. 'Repeat until Time' begins with a move to California and unfolds into an essay on repetition and returning home at once personal and philosophical. 'The Sandpit after Rain' explores the birth of a child and the loss of a father with exacting clarity. <br><br>In <i>Three Poems</i> readers will experience Sullivan's work with the same exhilaration as they might the great modernising poems of Eliot and Pound but with the unique perspective of a brilliant new female voice.