The Tree Is Missing by Shannon Kuta Kelly Groundswell Speaker 2024 Leon McCarron's tough journey paints

Leon McCarron's tough journey paints a rich and enthralling portrait' Sir Michael Palin

shamanic warrior Rin is consumed with guilt

picking out clues sprinkled throughout her works that pointed to the writers she had admired

cunning plots

The Bird's Nest

The Tree Is Missing by Shannon Kuta Kelly Groundswell Speaker 2024 Leon McCarron's tough journey paintsA powerful debut compelled by questions of borders and displacement. In one story I stay in that city forever,in one I board, and in another I am still waiting. I am daybreak; I am everywhere. In The Tree Is Missing, Shannon Kuta Kelly explores the poetics of the border. The collection crosses through non places, moving between the unnamed and unmapped spaces on the edges of the European city. With remarkable poise and restraint, these itinerant poems