Trsitia by Carmen Bugan Agnes Langeland comedian and performer John Hegley

comedian and performer John Hegley brings together poetry

safety and danger

human and more

her debut for Picador Poetry

Scientists and engineers are the great explorers of our age

Trsitia by Carmen Bugan Agnes Langeland comedian and performer John HegleyIn Tristia, Carmen Bugan tests the lyric against loss once again, as everything collapses around her, but this time much closer to home. These are poems about forging a stronger self in the fires of her lifetime, whether they are the forest fires that cover the American continent, the war in Ukraine, or her own world turned to ashes. The speaker in the poem 'Enheduana' laments: He spat on my oven full of food, Walked over my baskets full of bread,