Our Familiar Hunger Mark Winston “Tim Blackett’s debut opens a

“Tim Blackett’s debut opens a window into sixteen linked stories about loneliness

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it engages us with the realism of its characters and the momentum of its narrative

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Our Familiar Hunger Mark Winston “Tim Blackett’s debut opens aDescription Our Familiar Hunger is a book about the strength, will, struggle and fortitude of generations of women and how those relationships and knowledges interact, inform, transform and burden. These poems are memories of reclaimed history and attempts at starting over in a new place. They are the fractured reality of trickle down inheritance, studies of the epigenetic grief we carry and the myriad ways that interferes or interprets our best