Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky #foliosociety ' Irish Times 'Equal parts

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Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky #foliosociety ' Irish Times 'Equal partsBBC Radio 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK T. S. ELIOT PRIZE 2019 SHORTLIST FORWARD PRIZE 2019 SHORTLIST POETRY BOOK SOCIETY CHOICE 2019 The long awaited new collection from Ilya Kaminsky: a remarkable parable in poems which asks us, what is silence? Deaf Republic opens in a time of political unrest in an occupied territory. It is uncertain where we are or when, in what country or during what conflict, but we come to recognise that these events are also happening