The Kingdom by Jane Draycott Rachel Levitsky It is the life of

It is the life of an immigrant who has been in this country for fifty-odd years

Donna Williams

Intensely characterized

As he describes a childhood caught between intimacy and brutality

— Sara Baume

The Kingdom by Jane Draycott Rachel Levitsky It is the life ofThe Kingdom of Jane Draycotts fifth collection is clearly a world we know, altered a little by Draycotts distinctive, prismatic lyricism, whose loving attention to place and our moment is skewed in a way that opens the world afresh. Here are Englands towns and countryside, roads and ports and sushi chains, yards and herbs, an airport and a columbarium, and poems that consider art in a time of plague by way of meditation on Titian, Apollinaire and