Tormentil by Ian Humphreys Christmas25 So begins the poet's own

So begins the poet's own journey

It is not so much a matter of the odd lightning-struck tree as of an entire landscape

he spent over ten years of his life in mental institutions

from Asia and Europe to the new world in which their destinies are unpredictably worked out

Writing from lived experience

Tormentil by Ian Humphreys Christmas25 So begins the poet's ownIan Humphreys follows his Portico prize longlisted debut Zebra with Tormentil, poems alive with the connections of family, food, community, place and, at its heart, prayers for fabulousness and transformative encounters with loss, fear and fearlessness. "A powerful, moving, original body of work. These are poems which will find readers, hit nerves, matter to people." Jean Sprackland on Zebra Nine Arches Press