The Lost Book of Barkynge by Ruth Wiggins Paul Sutherland the quiddity of the everyday

the quiddity of the everyday

Co-editors and translators Loretta Collins-Klobah and Maria Grau Perejoan present a bilingual anthology of thirty-three contemporary Caribbean women poets

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the Kate Tufts Award from Claremont College and a 2015 Guggenheim award

The Lost Book of Barkynge by Ruth Wiggins Paul Sutherland the quiddity of the everydayIn her debut collection, Ruth Wiggins recovers the forgotten voices of the nuns, abbesses and local women of the medieval abbey at Barking. Against a backdrop of famine, plague, war and spiritual upheaval, these poems explore the strange, uncertain days of the early abbey: mysterious visions, politics, violence and sisterhood, and end with the final abbess mourning the eradication of her home as the Dissolution unhouses her, her sisters, and countless