Backlogues by Joseph Minden Polly Atkin but you can recognise real

but you can recognise real life becoming strange in the hands of an accomplished story-teller

always somewhere close at hand

These are poems of genuine

place and time become the “distance between things that stand like sisters”

This is a book for any child who wants to build confidence reading aloud

Backlogues by Joseph Minden Polly Atkin but you can recognise realIn Backlogues Joseph Minden explores how the act of remembering recreates spaces of oppression and how complicity in ancient power structures sustains modern day violence. Minden writes about the detritus of British history, from the Birkenhead Iron Works to the Bay of Biscay to Cape Town and the Straits of Malacca, all the time weaving a rich tapestry of troubling repetition alongside lenitive melodies and epicurean imagery. PRAISE for Backlogues: In