House of Small Absences Deborah al-Najjar Tom is Director of Penned

Tom is Director of Penned in the Margins and Co-Director of the London Word Festival

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House of Small Absences Deborah al-Najjar Tom is Director of PennedThe poems in Anne Marie Fyfes new poetry collection, House of Small Absences, invite us to a number of beautifully rendered yet unsettling places, often inspired by her travels abroad. She carefully captures a setting with all of its colour and detail, but also evokes the spirits of a place, the past or future inhabitants, their various losses and their movements through time. Anne Marie Fyfes poems have long dwelt on the role that the spaces we