Archangel by Henry Shukman (Jonathan Cape, £10)
Shukman's moving and narrative-led poems take their inspiration from the forced repatriation of several thousand Jewish tailors from London to Russia, to fight on the Eastern Front in 1917. The tragedy of forced separation changes family dynamics in both contemporary poems like The Beggar Father ("the true prodigal is always the father") and historical ones.
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