Shadow Reader by Imtiaz Dharker
Poetry Book Society Special Commendation Summer 2024 Gillian Allnutt Pete Mullineaux’s fifth collection is

Pete Mullineaux’s fifth collection is chock full of ‘strange but true’ surprises: from Plato to pangolins

questioning

does such a world live in us

And ever-present through the collection is Athens – the city the poet once turned his back on at eighteen but has come to love again

alongside Tom Leonard

Shadow Reader by Imtiaz Dharker<br><b>Poetry Book Society Special Commendation Summer 2024</b> Gillian Allnutt Pete Mullineaux’s fifth collection isShadow Reader is a radiant criss cross of encounters, messages and Punjabi proverbs, shot through with the dark thread of an unwelcome prophecy. The poems bind this looming curse to the occupation of countries, the earth and its creatures, those who own the story and those who redirect it through art or artifice. Does the warp look back at the one who is weaving and say, This is not how I remember it? Imtiaz Dharkers collection pays attention to