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her debut for Picador Poetry
her latest book
'The craft'
lifts the veil on the human condition that we would prefer not to be lifted
Trsitia by Carmen Bugan Agnes Langeland her debut for Picador PoetryIn Tristia, Carmen Bugan tests the lyric against loss once again, as everything collapses around her, but this time much closer to home. These are poems about forging a stronger self in the fires of her lifetime, whether they are the forest fires that cover the American continent, the war in Ukraine, or her own world turned to ashes. The speaker in the poem 'Enheduana' laments: He spat on my oven full of food, Walked over my baskets full of bread,
