City of Departures

by Helen Tookey

Shortlisted for The 2019 Forward Prize for Best Collection.

City of Departures is Helen Tookey's second Carcanet collection, following her 2014 Missel-Child, an 'exceptional volume ... from a powerful and intelligent imagination' (Jeffrey Wainwright). City of Departures is a collection of uncanny spaces and fleeting encounters, an urban patchwork of glimpsed moments and chance affiliations. Through them, Tookey explores...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 178410759X
• ISBN13: 9781784107598
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Carcanet Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.3" x 8.4"