Today's poem is "Martyrs"
from Emotional Support Horse
Claudine Toutoungi
's collections, published by Carcanet Press, are Emotional Support Horse (2024), Two Tongues (Winner Ledbury Poetry Prize 2021) and Smoothie (2017) Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The Guardian, The Financial Times, The New Statesman, The Spectator and elsewhere. A featured poet on the European poetry platform- Versopolis, her work has been translated into Spanish and featured on BBC Radio 4, which has also broadcast many of her original audio dramas. She is a Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow.
Other poems on the web by Claudine Toutoungi:
Four poems
"Sucker punch"
Eigth poems
"maples"
"Domestic Fox Physiognomy"
"autodidact"
Three poems
Two poems
Claudine Toutoungi's Website.
About Emotional Support Horse:
"Those who have enjoyed Toutoungi's work as it has appeared in widespread publications are sure to find even greater depths of enjoyment and intellectual connection with Emotional Support Horse."
"Moving between levity and gravitas, between erudition and instinct, Toutoungi's seriously playful engagement with language mines words and phrases to expose sudden heart-stopping emotion."
"These are poems of great wit and guile, tender and smart and beautiful. If there's a family line, it's from Stevie Smith's domestic macabre or Frederick Seidel's undercuts, but Emotional Support Horse confirms Claudine Toutoungi as a remarkable talent and a one-off. I loved it."
Martha Luke
Greta Stoddart
Michael Symmons Roberts
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