Was It for This B. Zwaal published on the centenary of

published on the centenary of his birth

fully conscious of reality and its metaphysical limits—“yes / the dark matter / animated by your hand / it’s me

and glinting with stars

Utterly rejecting the lies and logic of capitalism

Was It for This B. Zwaal published on the centenary ofHannah Sullivan Hannah Sullivans first collection, Three Poems, won the T. S. Eliot Prize and the inaugural John Pollard International Poetry Prize. Was It for This continues that books project, offering a trenchant exploration of the ways in which we attempt to map our lives in space and time. But there is also the wider, collective experience to contend with, the upheaval of historic event and present disaster. Tenants, the first poem, is an elegy