My final review for the TS Eliot Prize is now live on the Poety Book Society’s Poetry Portal – and what a book to finish with.
As I left work one bright September evening, Front Row snapped into life, mid segment, as I turned the ignition.
With no prior knowledge of either book or author, I heard Claudia Rankine read from Citizen. Her delivery – the gentlest of deliveries – hit as hard as anything I have ever heard.
I decided to buy and share this book with my colleagues at school long before she had finished speaking.
If you haven’t read this one yet, bag a copy now – it’s timely and necessary.
I’ll be tweeting from the awards ceremony on Sunday evening.
Buy Citizen from Penguin Books
Listen to Claudia Rankine read from and discuss Citizen on Front Row
Watch Claudia Rankine’s superb Lannan Foundation interview with Saskia Hamilton
Poor Rude Lines 
Thanks for the tip. I will have a listen.
Powerful and desperately sad. I see the same issue here in Italy in the treatment of the refugees that I work with from West Africa (invisibility, fear in the white space) and Afghans (alienated, suspected and searched).