Henry Shukman’s first poetry collection, In Doctor No’s Garden, was a Book of the Year in the Guardian and The Times and won the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. He was Poet in Residence at the Wordsworth Trust and currently lives in New Mexico.

"The most important debut this year... Shukman turns a slow, calm gaze on the world, captures what he sees with a skill that conceals his artistry. Beneath the understatement the emotion glints bright as quartz... he evokes all that is unspoken, unsaid, and yet most important at the same time" -- Rachel Campbell-Johnston The Times "Wierdly ingenious... almost everything brims with surely acheived detail. His talent lies in sheer narrative resource, and humour" -- Alan Brownjohn Sunday Times "Despite their quiet, elegant demeanour, these poems tack and skim to elemental forces. This is a concise, well-shaped first collection [with] the kind of bold emotion more usually associated with American verse... [and] lines whose tensile strength is woven from something other than irony" -- John Greening Times Literary Supplement "An object lesson in how lyricism, emotional precision adn the ache of nostalgia can be combined" -- Wayne Burrows Poetry London

Henry Shukman’s first poetry collection, In Doctor No’s Garden, was a Book of the Year in the Guardian and The Times and won the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. He was Poet in Residence at the Wordsworth Trust and currently lives in New Mexico.

"The most important debut this year... Shukman turns a slow, calm gaze on the world, captures what he sees with a skill that conceals his artistry. Beneath the understatement the emotion glints bright as quartz... he evokes all that is unspoken, unsaid, and yet most important at the same time" -- Rachel Campbell-Johnston The Times "Wierdly ingenious... almost everything brims with surely acheived detail. His talent lies in sheer narrative resource, and humour" -- Alan Brownjohn Sunday Times "Despite their quiet, elegant demeanour, these poems tack and skim to elemental forces. This is a concise, well-shaped first collection [with] the kind of bold emotion more usually associated with American verse... [and] lines whose tensile strength is woven from something other than irony" -- John Greening Times Literary Supplement "An object lesson in how lyricism, emotional precision adn the ache of nostalgia can be combined" -- Wayne Burrows Poetry London

Henry Shukman’s first poetry collection, In Doctor No’s Garden, was a Book of the Year in the Guardian and The Times and won the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. He was Poet in Residence at the Wordsworth Trust and currently lives in New Mexico.

"The most important debut this year... Shukman turns a slow, calm gaze on the world, captures what he sees with a skill that conceals his artistry. Beneath the understatement the emotion glints bright as quartz... he evokes all that is unspoken, unsaid, and yet most important at the same time" -- Rachel Campbell-Johnston The Times "Wierdly ingenious... almost everything brims with surely acheived detail. His talent lies in sheer narrative resource, and humour" -- Alan Brownjohn Sunday Times "Despite their quiet, elegant demeanour, these poems tack and skim to elemental forces. This is a concise, well-shaped first collection [with] the kind of bold emotion more usually associated with American verse... [and] lines whose tensile strength is woven from something other than irony" -- John Greening Times Literary Supplement "An object lesson in how lyricism, emotional precision adn the ache of nostalgia can be combined" -- Wayne Burrows Poetry London