Dear Big Gods by Mona Arshi Luljeta Lleshanaku these citizens of empire were

these citizens of empire were not embraced as compatriots on an equal footing

Myths have survived for so long because they say important things about what it means to be human

choosing instead to locate the place’s meaning in “all of us listening”

and language seems to love her back

interior lights – a train on a dark morning

Dear Big Gods by Mona Arshi Luljeta Lleshanaku these citizens of empire wereFollowing on from her Forward prize winning collection, Small Hands, Mona Arshi's new book continues in its lyrical and exact exploration of the aftershocks of grief. These extraordinary poems, which see Arshi continuing with her experiments with form, relocate experiences in both past and future feeling, in both the intimacies of ordinariness and the collective experience of myth. Moving and discomfiting, these poems tune, in their acute emotional