Our Weird Regiment by Martyn Crucefix Tom Sastry humane and tender book from

humane and tender book from one of the most important young poets of his generation

Travel across oceans and discover the vengeful wrath of a River God in Kayo Chingonyi's West African tale

In this sensitive and alert translation

but still finds chimes of light in the darkness – insisting that

The book concludes with a brand new long poem

Our Weird Regiment by Martyn Crucefix Tom Sastry humane and tender book fromThe poems in this collection were written over a 10 year period, beginning with 'Springtime in the Rockies'. This poem was sparked by an incident in September 2014 where a bowhunter shot and killed a bull moose in an area where the animals had become habituated to people. The title of the collection is based on the 19th century ideology, 'Manifest Destiny', the belief that God gave white Americans the right to expand westward across the North American