Blood & Cord Format:Paperback Luke Brown leads the reader

Luke Brown leads the reader beyond easy partisanship and into much trickier terrain

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James Nash’s sonnets have delighted thousands of poetry readers and listeners across the globe

Blood & Cord Format:Paperback Luke Brown leads the readerA child is born and everything is made anew. In this blur of new beginnings there are tears and laughter, new words and new silences: this is an unmaking and remaking of the self. From short stories about unnerved fathers and lost mothers, to poems about half built Lego palaces and friends who share their deepest secrets, Blood & Cord is a raw exploration of new parenthood. Voicing silenced conversations about loss, grief, and loneliness, as well as