Time Being by Carmen Bugan #desmondelliottprize was shortlisted for the Forward

was shortlisted for the Forward Prize

It reveals the story of Pascale Petit’s mentally ill mother and the consequences of abuse

of the lost tribe that watched time enter the garden and God rehearse the world

His father had been a member of the SS in Germany in the Second World War

Time Being by Carmen Bugan #desmondelliottprize was shortlisted for the Forward"In these poems, many addressing the 'long Sunday' of the pandemic years, Carmen Bugan reflects on the impact of the virus through the prism of personal family moments and local experience. She writes with disciplined precision, always attendant to the necessary nuance poetry demands. Her lyric voice and moral imagination in these poems gathers its energy from the urgency of daily concerns and anxieties, as well as the need to witness. Set against a