Words from the Wall by Adam Thorpe Penguin Putnam Sunrise in the Eyes of

Sunrise in the Eyes of the Snowman and Immigrant Blues

the archipelagos of New Zealand and the islands of Oceania

over 40 chemical attacks launched

three decades after being put up for adoption

Words from the Wall by Adam Thorpe Penguin Putnam Sunrise in the Eyes ofThese remarkable poems are despatches from the edges of experience: from the remote coast of northern Iceland where tree trunks and dead whales lie beached, to the furthest outposts of the Roman empire in the title poem From the very limit of the world, Flavius sends you greetings, my lord. The collection is concerned with borders and brinks the liminal spaces where distinctions blur between outer and inner, known and unknown, between what is familiar