Egrets, While War by Tishani Doshi Jackie Kay to Counteract Sorrow

to Counteract Sorrow

Louis Bailey

of personal and wider history

Your promise has been extracted is Ahren Warner’s third collection of poems

In Amsterdam in 2002

Egrets, While War by Tishani Doshi Jackie Kay to Counteract SorrowShortlisted for The Forward Prize for Best Collection 2026 Egrets, While War is a lyric field guide to grief and resilience, where attention becomes a form of devotion, and intimacy, a quiet resistance. The poems in Tishani Doshis fifth collection navigate the deep entanglements between environmental loss, ancestral memory, the slow transformations of ageing, and the devastations of war. Birds appear throughout these pages, not simply as subjects but