The Kabul Olympics by John McAuliffe anthology ‘Officer’ / ‘Zipped File’ details

‘Officer’ / ‘Zipped File’ details the breakdown in communication between employee and employer

In her finest book to date

as well as historical figures

friendship and the deaths of friends

She is most obviously (in this collection at least) a nature poet

The Kabul Olympics by John McAuliffe anthology ‘Officer’ / ‘Zipped File’ detailsThe Kabul Olympics is a book of impossible places, from the imagined Kabul of the title poem to City of Trees which conjures an alternate, parallel Manchester in the aftermath of the Arena bombing, from a plane spiralling ever upwards into the eye of a storm in Godsend to the becalmed travels of The Harbours, a sequence which reflects on nationalism and border crossing. Many of these poems find themselves in the dark, on journeys whose destinations