The Kingdom by Jane Draycott Iliad and not least to the

and not least to the women who preceded her and who remain a steadying and guiding presence throughout

and challenging the boundaries of contemporary poetics

They also find themselves switching back and forth between two time zones

A shifting constellation of voices

His anarchic punk poetry has thrilled people for decades

The Kingdom by Jane Draycott Iliad and not least to theThe Kingdom of Jane Draycotts fifth collection is clearly a world we know, altered a little by Draycotts distinctive, prismatic lyricism, whose loving attention to place and our moment is skewed in a way that opens the world afresh. Here are Englands towns and countryside, roads and ports and sushi chains, yards and herbs, an airport and a columbarium, and poems that consider art in a time of plague by way of meditation on Titian, Apollinaire and