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British
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Community
Debut
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Fathers
First Collection
Grief
Legacies
Masculinity
Men
Poetry
Tragedy
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- ISBN 9781800174689
- Dimensions: 135 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 27 Mar 2025
- Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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A Poetry Book Society Recommendation Spring 2025
Shortlisted for the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize 2026
Dane Holt's subject is often the aftermath of tragedy - ecological, personal or social - but these poems grieve in surprising ways. Deflection, displacement and refracted voices combine to animate a world of brilliantly realised situations. And Holt's characters, though always articulate, do not precisely comprehend their own relation to what they inherit. Compelling, funny, endlessly inventive, this bold debut collection explores the formation and disillusion of masculinity and community, exposing just how tender and brittle these constructs are.
Shortlisted for the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize 2026
Dane Holt's subject is often the aftermath of tragedy - ecological, personal or social - but these poems grieve in surprising ways. Deflection, displacement and refracted voices combine to animate a world of brilliantly realised situations. And Holt's characters, though always articulate, do not precisely comprehend their own relation to what they inherit. Compelling, funny, endlessly inventive, this bold debut collection explores the formation and disillusion of masculinity and community, exposing just how tender and brittle these constructs are.
Dane Holt holds a PhD from Queen's University Belfast. His debut pamphlet, Many Professional Wrestlers Never Retire (Lifeboat Press), was published in 2023 and was a Poetry Book Society Autumn Pamphlet Choice. In 2019, he won the inaugural Brotherton Prize, awarded by the University of Leeds. He was the 2023 Ciaran Carson Publishing Fellow at the Seamus Heaney Centre, Belfast.
