furnish, entrap

Author: Kashif Sharma-Patel

Publisher: Broken Sleep Books (2024)

furnish, entrap is a collection of poems built from the inside-out, in a way that can only come from a deep engagement with history and with the materiality of the text, the word, the line, that is both intellectual and visceral. Kashif Sharma-Patel uses the socio-political forces of this country to express the experience of those to whom it has been hostile for over half a century. Sharma-Patel has created a collection which challenges the reader to recognise what they may have previously assumed about Britain and our colonial legacy, and at the same time, the beauty of these poems lies in their lyrical inventiveness, in the way they open up new ways of thinking about culture, through the act of poetic thinking.