A fantastic insight into an event I knew embarrassingly little about. Beautifully written and eye-opening.

Surge is a beautiful poetry collection that ties the tragedies and atrocities from recent history to the tragedies and atrocities of today, bringing the New Cross Massacre to life and contrasting it against the Grenfell Tower fire. Bernard is brilliant with words and form, and I loved reading so many of the poems they wrote here. A few of the poems were ones I felt like I didn't appreciate enough because I felt largely like some of them just weren't FOR me (and that's okay!), but I still enjoyed them (if enjoyment is even the right way to describe it) despite not being the intended audience.

Definitely recommended!

I'm not rating this as I've really no experience with Poetry to compare it to but I found it thoughtful and moving

every year
I hear summer
ask
how autumn
can endure
winter’s undoing