Call and Response Saradha Soobrayen

Call and Response Saradha SoobrayenCall and Response is a sequence of sonnets from the perspective of a daughter, addressed to her mother during her mother's illness. Hard edged yet tender, the poems explore the darker side of familial bonds and the strange ways suffering can heal old wounds. April. The relief of finding you perched on your hospital bed. Lipsticked and cashmered. Defiantly undimmed. Twelve hours post op, youve drunk them out of tea and think youd like to go now. Nurses

a sureness that

‘Song of the Civil Guard’

She was a dancer

Fusing philosophical interrogation with humour and pop cultural resonances

broadcaster

and at the same time [forceful]

as it came to be known

Nicole Krauss

we read of an ‘eerie maleficent calm

Straddling the fissures within a man and his country

editor of Socialist Review

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