John Kinsella, Consolations: After Boethius The featured poets are part

The featured poets are part of diverse literary communities that have emerged within and in response to Myanmar’s decades-long experience of dictatorship and civil war

Mikael de Lara Co’s poetry is decidedly Filipino in scope

Karen and Burmese language radio

And shot down

is a poet and translator

John Kinsella, Consolations: After Boethius The featured poets are partThis is a demanding, eloquent book, energised by rapid shuttling between satire, elegy, disquisition, long and close up views of birds and plants. Entertaining but deeply serious, refusing prefabrication, it adds a new level of achievement to the John Kinsella repertoire and it deserves to be widely read. JOHN KERRIGAN Consolations is book length sequence of poems that considers how we might find space for solace and relief amidst the trauma of a