How to burn a woman by Claire Askew Philip Gross at the psychiatric clinic

at the psychiatric clinic

and Ethiopia’s Christian relics are pillaged by Victorian imperialists ('The Gap')

and this long poem is animated by his recollection of what life was and never will be again

death and resurrection of language itself

How to burn a woman by Claire Askew Philip Gross at the psychiatric clinicClaire Askews electrifying second collection is an investigation of power: the power of oppressive systems and their hold over those within them; the power of resilience; the power of the human heart. It licks flame across the imagination, and rewrites narratives of human desire. It is a collection for anyone who has ever run through their life backwards in the dark, with no map these bright poems illuminate the way. How to burn a woman throngs with