It has been over a decade since Henry Shukman published his award-winning first collection, In Doctor No's Garden . Now, in his greatly anticipated second collection, he explores a little-known piece of Jewish history, in a sequence of poems that forms the centerpiece of this book. In 1917, several thousand Jewish tailors were deported from London and shipped back to Archangel and the Russian Empire they had recently fled, ostensibly to fight on the...