Cain Named The Animal by Shane McCrae Robert Fitterman Carol Ann Duffy and Benjamin

Carol Ann Duffy and Benjamin Zephaniah

For around fifteen centuries Welsh poets have expressed an intense awareness of what it is like to be human in this part of the world in poems of extraordinary range and depth

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Cain Named The Animal by Shane McCrae Robert Fitterman Carol Ann Duffy and BenjaminIn McCraes hands, poetry is reclamation. It is also transport: writing a way out and through Kate Kellaway, GuardianConfirms McCrae as one of the most erudite and inventive poets of our time Kit Fan, GuardianWriting you I give the death I takeI know I should feel wounded by your deathI write to you to make a wound write backShane McCrae fashions a world of endings and infinites in Cain Named the Animal. With cyclical, rhythmic lines that create and