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Bread and Circus

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08 June 2023
112 pages
9781035000821
Imprint: Picador

Reviews

'This book enacts, with tenderness and intelligence, an erudition that matches the capacious love of its ambitions. Formally ambidextrous, teethed with wit and uncompromising dignity, Matthews engages the archive as a breathing document, refusing to let history be done with itself, and thereby accomplishes what I love most about poetry— especially hers—that it lives, is living.'
'Matthews's writing is bold, innovative and complex.'
'Matthews is virtuosic, frantic, and darkly, very darkly, funny.'
'Discerning and significant'