Fondue by AK Blakemore ocean vuong the work of a grown-up

the work of a grown-up for grown-ups who will remember what in the nature of things they've had to lose and what nevertheless they seek to celebrate' - Sean O'Brien

"[A] dazzling and immensely readable collection

belching out the swaggering voices of American hellfire preachers

The mother transforms into a giant Victoria amazonica waterlily

The combination is genius

Fondue by AK Blakemore ocean vuong the work of a grown-up"[A] dazzling and immensely readable collection." Andrew McMillan 'never say the best of summer's gone', the poem asks, a plea for permanence that sustains throughout Fondue, the second collection by A. K. Blakemore. In these louche, candid poems, bearing the marks of Mary Ruefle, Emily Dickinson and The Smiths, the inner life prowls, smoking a cigarette, as the fantasies of sex and violence allowed to play out in the subjugations that have long been