returns with his second collection
and can appreciate the initiatives which make life better today
The poets behind them are fighters
Simultaneously close to home and looking outward beyond these shores
Hush Now, Canary Clive Scott returns with his second collectionIn a city strained by fear and uncertainty, lives intersect in fleeting moments of intimacy, loss, and endurance. Hush Now, Canary unfolds through a polyphonic structure, giving voice to the living, the displaced, the imprisoned, and the dead, each bearing witness to how ordinary life fractures under pressure. Blending stark realism with subtle surrealism, the novel resists grand explanations and instead lingers on gestures, silences, and the fragile