All The Flowers Kneeling collection And as if that wasn’t

And as if that wasn’t enough

She and a nearby surfer are tracked by a giant great white shark that swims close enough so she can look it in the eye

they stand head and shoulders above their nearest rugby rivals

When two months later a sailing boat arrives

But when Emmeline risks everything for one final fling with Anders

All The Flowers Kneeling collection And as if that wasn’tVisceral and astonishing, Paul Tran's debut poetry collection, All the Flowers Kneeling, charts the rebuilding of a self in the wake of extremity. How, it asks, can we reimagine what we have been given in order to make something new: an identity, a family, a life, a dream? These rich, resonant poems of desire, freedom, control and rebirth reach back into the past the tale of Scheherazade, US imperial violence, a shattering history of personal abuse to