After the Formalities MT Taylor and the capacity of the

and the capacity of the living heart to heal itself

subtle and occasionally devastating

Her work — and that of the illustrator Hilda Miller — lives on in fairy sites all over the internet

in blues and rap poems

A version of Dante

After the Formalities MT Taylor and the capacity of theA knife is pulled. An Uber driver is racially abused on the day of the Brexit referendum. A father bathes his son in ice water. A schoolboy drives a drawing pin into a map of the world. The threat of violence is never far away in Anthony Anaxagorou's breakthrough collection After the Formalities. Technically achieved, emotionally transformative and razor sharp, these are poems that confront and contradict; poems in which the scholarly synthesises with