Bread and Circus by Airea D. Matthews
Poetry Book Society Choice Summer 2023 Simon Perrill UA Fanthorpe said of Foley’s

UA Fanthorpe said of Foley’s first book

taking stock of a world in turmoil

he reminds us of the power of words to help us heal

the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Whitbread Poetry Award

cosmic (in 'the sharp

Bread and Circus by Airea D. Matthews<br><b>Poetry Book Society Choice Summer 2023</b> Simon Perrill UA Fanthorpe said of Foley’s"This book enacts, with tenderness and intelligence, an erudition that matches the capacious love of its ambitions. Formally ambidextrous, teethed with wit and uncompromising dignity, Matthews engages the archive as a breathing document, refusing to let history be done with itself, and thereby accomplishes what I love most about poetry especially hers that it lives, is living." Ocean Vuong Bread and Circus is a hybrid and palimpsestic memoir in verse: