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Branfoot, Tom

 
9781068488092: Volatile

Synopsis

"This is a book of fierce clarity and aching beauty: a record of a life weathered, a landscape unsettled, and a future pending." ―Peter Gizzi

Tom Branfoot’s debut poetry collection explores nature during a time of political crisis, drawing its title from the Middle English use of ‘volatile’ to name birds and other winged creatures. Pulling apart what it means to dwell, habitat loss appears synonymous with eviction, and birds become fellow travellers in our precarious present. Produced as a part of a residency at Manchester Cathedral, the long poem "Muminent" is threaded throughout the book engaging with the earliest recorded history of Manchester to consider the body as an archive at risk of disappearance.

Volatile reaches out in solidarity to the dispossessed everywhere who still sing in the wreckage of the now.

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À propos de l'auteur

Tom Branfoot is a poet and critic from Bradford. He won a Northern Writers' Award in 2024 and the New Poets Prize 2022. He organises the poetry reading series *More Song* in Bradford. Tom is the author of *This Is Not an Epiphany* (Smith|Doorstop) and *boar* (Broken Sleep Books), both published in 2023. His poem ‘A Parliament of Jets’ was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem 2025. *Volatile* is his debut collection.

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