Cut to Fortress Product Form:Paperback / softback but also the voices of

but also the voices of animals and inanimate objects (wolves

He slides puns into serious conversations deft as a pickpocket

for whom this is nothing more than an alternative to talking about the weather

--Mark Sampson

Her investigation of the deeply personal in the midst of the nationally symbolic makes these poems rich and complicated - she is a careful and thoughtful poetic guide

Cut to Fortress Product Form:Paperback / softback but also the voices ofDescription A stunning debut poetry collection confronting colonialism, relationships, grief and intergenerational wounds. Cut to Fortress considers the possibility of decolonization through a personal lens, urging for a resistance that is tied using cord and old growth tree roots; a resistance that tethers us all together in this contemporary existence. With an upbringing in Surrey, fraught familial conflicts, the passing of his older brother and its