One Language By Anastasia Taylor-Lind Carol Ann Duffy And despite the global tendency

And despite the global tendency towards homogenisation

build imaginative inferences and speculations

Austerity and Brexit has done particularly fell work to the North-East

It is a triumph of imagination that she is able to empathise with other forms of oppression

but they have about them also a kind of archaic cast: here we find the quintessential white male Englishness from the late twentieth century which has in recent decades run for cover

One Language By Anastasia Taylor-Lind Carol Ann Duffy And despite the global tendencyOne Language is a remarkable debut collection. From the perspective of a female photojournalist, these concise but complex and insightful poems draw on first hand experience of war to explore how damage is generated and perpetuated. The books title expresses the contradiction between the lingua franca of photography and the equally universal language of violence. One Language comes to an understanding of personal history and global conflict in poetry