2016 by Sarah Hesketh PRE-ORDER
Published 3rd April 2025. Available for pre-order.
With great craft and care, Sarah Hesketh has assembled a chorus of ordinary voices to tell the story of a year. If Wordsworth thought that poetry was best found in the overflow of "powerful feelings", this book acts as a kind of fever-chart for our collective emotions in 2016. Encompassing the election of Trump, the Brexit vote, and the deaths of Jo Cox, David Bowie and Carrie Fisher - as well as the death of Hesketh's own father - 2016 subtly builds into a moving study of grief, and the solace to be found in other people.' - Clare Pollard
"Sarah Hesketh's work is an epic for our times, composed of luminous fragments from the lives of the ordinary and less ordinary. This surprising, funny and deeply human work of documentary poetry puts recent history under the microscope and in doing so redeems it." - Sasha Dugdale
With great craft and care, Sarah Hesketh has assembled a chorus of ordinary voices to tell the story of a year. If Wordsworth thought that poetry was best found in the overflow of "powerful feelings", this book acts as a kind of fever-chart for our collective emotions in 2016. Encompassing the election of Trump, the Brexit vote, and the deaths of Jo Cox, David Bowie and Carrie Fisher - as well as the death of Hesketh's own father - 2016 subtly builds into a moving study of grief, and the solace to be found in other people.' - Clare Pollard
"Sarah Hesketh's work is an epic for our times, composed of luminous fragments from the lives of the ordinary and less ordinary. This surprising, funny and deeply human work of documentary poetry puts recent history under the microscope and in doing so redeems it." - Sasha Dugdale
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