Things That Happen by Maurice Scully Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella 'Each year Eliot's presence reasserts

'Each year Eliot's presence reasserts itself at a deeper level

basalt icons and the ‘mystery-of-purple-lights-in-the-sky’

immigrant and queer perspectives

It speaks – as its title implies – to a pursuit of justice and rebalance of a world in which lords and commoners must live side by side

winning the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry and being widely applauded in ‘books of the year’

Things That Happen by Maurice Scully Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella 'Each year Eliot's presence reassertsFinally in one volume, this book brings together all the various parts of Maurice Scully's magnum opus, written over a 25 year period: 5 Freedoms of Movement, Livelihood, Sonata and Tig. The largest of those individual releases, Livelihood, has long been out of print, as (now) is Sonata, thus leaving interested readers with only the opening movement and the closing coda of the whole work. The author has revised the entire work for this edition, and