The latest collection from multiple Forward- and T.S. Eliot Prize-nominated poet. Draycott teaches on postgraduate writing programmes at the universities of Oxford and Lancaster. Her fifth Carcanet collection, The Kingdom has its face turned towards the future, considering how we face the ever-continuing approach of the unknown. Includes shortlisted and award-winning new work on themes of hope and the desire for
connection. Includes poems that continue her conversation with the medieval imagination.