All The Flowers Kneeling collection and an entirely foreign realm

and an entirely foreign realm

Ambre Nicolson is ʼn skrywer en redakteur woonagtig in Kaapstad

During one hectic summer

She and a nearby surfer are tracked by a giant great white shark that swims close enough so she can look it in the eye

When two months later a sailing boat arrives

All The Flowers Kneeling collection and an entirely foreign realmVisceral and astonishing, Paul Tran's debut poetry collection, All the Flowers Kneeling, charts the rebuilding of a self in the wake of extremity. How, it asks, can we reimagine what we have been given in order to make something new: an identity, a family, a life, a dream? These rich, resonant poems of desire, freedom, control and rebirth reach back into the past the tale of Scheherazade, US imperial violence, a shattering history of personal abuse to