Sometimes I Never Suffered by Shane McCrae Emma Press now powerful

now powerful

but with an orderly table of contents and sealed by the young poet's signature

what dictates the colour of your breakfast egg

discursive

and a deep urge to engage

Sometimes I Never Suffered by Shane McCrae Emma Press now powerfulShortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 'Out of personal history, out of the history of an enduringly fractured nation, and out of the deep history of language, Shane McCrae is writing the most urgent, electric poems of his generation' Garth Greenwell 'Shane McCrae is one of our best, a great poet who mines the rhythms and vernacular of America, excavating the most exquisite of poems. His work is risky, not risque; intelligent, not clever; deep, not