Egrets, While War by Tishani Doshi Jackie Kay this highly inventive collection builds

this highly inventive collection builds into a heartbroken letter to a dear friend (personified in the poems as 'lydia deetz') who died by suicide

" -Anton Romanenko

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Egrets, While War by Tishani Doshi Jackie Kay this highly inventive collection buildsShortlisted for The Forward Prize for Best Collection 2026 Egrets, While War is a lyric field guide to grief and resilience, where attention becomes a form of devotion, and intimacy, a quiet resistance. The poems in Tishani Doshis fifth collection navigate the deep entanglements between environmental loss, ancestral memory, the slow transformations of ageing, and the devastations of war. Birds appear throughout these pages, not simply as subjects but