Breakfast at the Origami Café by Tess Jolly Neil Campbell Britain’s First World War poets

Britain’s First World War poets changed the way we view military conflict and had a deep impact on the national psyche

These narratives push towards a unified dispersal

Bebe Ashley spins gold from the detritus of the internet

a human presence is ‘embedded in the walls’

all six sequences in the book chart ‘extreme experience with a dazzling excess’ (Deryn Rees-Jones)

Breakfast at the Origami Café by Tess Jolly Neil Campbell Britain’s First World War poetsPublished November 2020. Tess Jollys first full collection, Breakfast at the Origami Caf, slides beneath emotional surfaces, the painted veneers we artfully create for ourselves, and enters the heart of darkness: loss, violence, trauma, recovery delivered with a forensic eye for just the right amount of detail. This is art which is bold and yet vulnerable, precise in its use of language and yet passionately engaged, a book where shadows both living