Cain Named The Animal by Shane McCrae Robert Fitterman recognising a right – a

recognising a right – a responsibility – to risk the necessary word

Salena Godden

transporting them in one year to a seventeenth-century festival on the frozen Thames

Adrianne Kalfopoulou

perhaps more vivid than before

Cain Named The Animal by Shane McCrae Robert Fitterman recognising a right – aIn McCraes hands, poetry is reclamation. It is also transport: writing a way out and through Kate Kellaway, GuardianConfirms McCrae as one of the most erudite and inventive poets of our time Kit Fan, GuardianWriting you I give the death I takeI know I should feel wounded by your deathI write to you to make a wound write backShane McCrae fashions a world of endings and infinites in Cain Named the Animal. With cyclical, rhythmic lines that create and