Before Violence by Joe Carrick-Varty PRE-ORDER Poetry Book Society Recommendation Spring 2026 In Search of Dustie-Fute and a dozen chapbooks from

and a dozen chapbooks from various presses

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Before Violence by Joe Carrick-Varty PRE-ORDER <b> Poetry Book Society Recommendation Spring 2026 </b> In Search of Dustie-Fute and a dozen chapbooks fromPublished 26th March 2026 Praising Joe Carrick Vartys debut, the T. S. Eliot Prize judges observed that his work confronts fraught spaces of addiction and domestic violence [its] lyricism shaped by a raw and fragmented reality. His outstanding second collection reflects further on growing up under the cloud of abuse and alcoholism, unfolding compelling patterns as it examines how the past shapes our future lives. Bold and unusual in form, its three