Foretokens by Sarah Howe Poetry Book Society Choice Winter 2025 Martin Zarrop followed by her 'Amherst Balladz'

followed by her 'Amherst Balladz'

from hendecasyllabics to the Sapphics of Poems 11 and 51

” —Charles Simic

I’m instantly drawn into Rosenthalis’s imaginative world and I want to stay there forever

Foretokens by Sarah Howe <b> Poetry Book Society Choice Winter 2025 </b> Martin Zarrop followed by her 'Amherst Balladz''Howe is peerless and I look at her work, happily, with awe' OCEAN VUONG A landmark new collection from T. S. Eliot Prize winner Sarah Howe, navigating the complex inheritance of family, language and colonialism and forming a portrait of a mother in search of her past and herself. 'Unearthed in a clear out, a picture calendar shes kept hoarding, Ive learnt, is a mark of the emigrant across continents and time.' So begins Sarah Howes extraordinary new