Healing the Pack Franz Hodjak the accounts Avatar brings of

the accounts Avatar brings of his previous lives suggest buried traumas of the most worrying kind

profits in the boardrooms and wage-cuts on the cold shop-floor

There is grief here

exerting a softly fragmentary style that underpins Alice’s vacillations

This is a thrilling sweep across Pálsson’s work: chronologies are upset

Healing the Pack Franz Hodjak the accounts Avatar brings ofHealing the Pack is a book of retrieval. These are poems on the hunt for language to speak of intergenerational resilience and the power offered up by ancestors and perceptive children. Born out of working class life in a coalmining community, the work explores unsilencing. It honours those who speak through the gaps of their suffering to share their strengths. The assembled poems, which took 17 years to write, are more than descriptions of recovery,