Pilgrim Bell by Kaveh Akbar Gillian Allnutt – Tom Jenks

– Tom Jenks

Preserved on a single surviving manuscript dating from around 1400

science’s fault

the poems in this pamphlet mesh pop cultural references with mythology while delving into love

if Agard had not already been forged in the roller-coaster aftermath of empire

Pilgrim Bell by Kaveh Akbar Gillian Allnutt – Tom Jenks'Profound and singular, smart and sad and funny. . . We need Pilgrim Bell.' TOMMY ORANGEWith formal virtuosity and ruthless precision, Kaveh Akbar's second collection takes its readers on a spiritual journey of disavowal, fiercely attendant to the presence of divinity where artifacts of self and belonging have been shed. How does one recover from addiction without destroying the self as addict? And if living justly in a nation that would see them