Everything is Present by Anna Woodford Lila Matsumoto Hanan Issa (National Poet of

Hanan Issa (National Poet of Wales)

it’s a challenge we should rise to

and the difficulties of human communication and connection

as if his poems came through his own time and language but from somewhere else

Everything is Present by Anna Woodford Lila Matsumoto Hanan Issa (National Poet ofPoems within Everything is Present have won the Ledbury Prize, the Wigtown Prize and been featured in the Forward anthology of Poems of the year. The book is a topsy turvy mid life coming of age tale. Divided into three sections End Middle Beginning and starting at the end. The first section contains award winning elegies for a mother who died on a locked down ward during the pandemic and a grandfather who escaped from Nazi occupied Lww (then in