You have no normal country to return to Anthony Anaxagorou

You have no normal country to return to Anthony AnaxagorouIn You have no normal country to return to, Tom Sastry explores questions of national identity and the end of history'. A blistering, bleakly funny and timely second poetry collection, following his Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize shortlisted, A Man's House Catches Fire. By turns crisply satirical and questioning, You have no normal country to return to ranges across the legacies of Empire, postwar migration and the current crisis in English

Kamal cannot join the resistance

and fiction writers Gabriela Babni

where he'd come to buy a horse

scrape with ovarian cancer

the single room they all shared

intelligent work

There is a deep sense of history across the collection

she is still not satisfied

But while the story here centres on Peter King's life in jazz it shows other important sides of him too: his ambitions and achievements in classical composing

distracted when they should be listening in

ornithologist

and very much enjoying the ride