Forlorn Light by Nazifa Islam AK Blakemore ’ – Adam Newey

’ – Adam Newey

‘Informality and immediacy are vivid ways to remake a world

to hundreds of thousands as the poet of the London Olympics

and his third collection brings all his considerable strengths to poems as accurate and strange as thermal images

Forlorn Light by Nazifa Islam AK Blakemore ’ – Adam NeweyTo write these poems, I select a paragraph from a Woolf novelThe Waves or Mrs. Dallowayand only use the words from that paragraph to create a poem. I essentially write poems while doing a word search using Virginia Woolf as source material. I dont allow myself to repeat words, add words, or edit the language for tense or any other consideration. These poems are simultaneously defined by both Woolfs choices with language as well as my own. They feel