Post-Atomic Glossaries: New & Selected Poems by Antony Owen Carmen Bugan Then tugs and teases –

Then tugs and teases – at possible pasts

’ – John McAuliffe

author of the Pulitzer Prize winning Versed

and describes not only the reality of chronic illness

He is a poet of Whitman’s multitudes and of Langston Hughes’ blues

Post-Atomic Glossaries: New & Selected Poems by Antony Owen Carmen Bugan Then tugs and teases –Collecting 15 years of poetry, Post Atomic Glossaries is Antony Owens magnum opus, a selection including his Ted Hughes award shortlisted collection, The Nagasaki Elder, alongside selections from every book he has published, and an impressive range of new poems. The poems that make up this collection explore war, nuclear power, terrorism, the death penalty, genocide, Hiroshima, nuclear weaponry, family life, masculinity, and much more. The poems are,