The Wrong Person to Ask by Marjorie Lotfi
POETRY BOOK SOCIETY SPECIAL COMMENDATION WINTER 2023 #PBSTikTok “Frost & Pollen continues Helen

“Frost & Pollen continues Helen Hajnoczky’s spectacular interrogation of language and her experimentation with the porous boundaries between body and earth

the stoicism of classical thought and the far east - unforgettably phrased by a writer who

let us go with her and meet up with ‘frieda khalo dressed in a saree’

the work of 'one who is not afraid of big subjects

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The Wrong Person to Ask by Marjorie Lotfi<br><b>POETRY BOOK SOCIETY SPECIAL COMMENDATION WINTER 2023</b> #PBSTikTok “Frost & Pollen continues HelenWinner of the James Berry Poetry Prize. Marjorie Lotfi's award winning debut collection is a book of two halves, each a meditation on the idea of home, both the places we start and end up in our lives. Spanning a childhood in Iran dislocated by revolution, through years as a young woman in America, to her current home in Scotland, these poems ask what it means to come from somewhere else, what we carry with us when we leave, and how we land in a new