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Foretokens

by Sarah Howe

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Start the Week, BBC Radio 4 · September 7, 2025

Arundhati Roy and maternal inheritance

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A poetry collection by TS Eliot Prize-winner Sarah Howe in which she returns to themes of family and language, attempting to piece together the fragmentary and often mythical early life of her Chinese mother, who was given away at birth.

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