Sculling by Sophie Dumont Wrecking Ball you don’t want it to

you don’t want it to end

Unfolding from lessons from tragic Panjabi folk heroines and chaotic schoolgirl antics

of resettlement and marriage as well as parenthood

‘There is an intriguing collision between the archaeological and the lyrical in Shazea Quraishi’s series of poems

as well as reimagination and regeneration

Sculling by Sophie Dumont Wrecking Ball you don’t want it toShortlisted for the Jerwood Prize 2026 This is a book of watersheds love, death and rivers and once you slip into its beguiling flow, you dont want it to end. Poised, fecund and inventive, Dumonts poetry speaks to these times with a visceral sense of how it is to navigate fracture, interrogate the unfathomable elements and attempt to live a joined up life Linda France This is writing as sure and complex as the flow of water, weaving its wide