Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Ambush at Still Lake by Caroline Bird (Carcanet)Bird\u2019s eighth collection is playful, irreverent and witty \u2014 even in poems that are set in some of life\u2019s darker places. From a grandmother\u2019s alarming dying words to an unlikely reincarnation of Gilbert and Sullivan, occasionally taking the assertions of a \u201cboss\u201d toddler as a jumping-off point, Bird never fails to surprise.Ruin, Blossom by John Burnside (Jonathan Cape)Sadly Burnside\u2019s final collection before his death last month at the age of 69, Ruin, Blossom embraces transition and the fleeting, fading, but ultimately renewing nature of all things. His characteristically astute, finely observed lines find the redeeming light in a challenged natural world.\u00a0Open Mouths by Sharan Hunjan (Rough Trade Books)The title of the Londoner\u2019s debut collection is inspired by a frozen screen during a lockdown video call, and in her poems she takes everyday snapshots and weaves them into vignettes that are by turns riotous and thoughtful. Amid the vivacious humour, awestruck portraits of her child as a tiny, miraculous, godlike creature are sweetly moving.Still City: Diary of an Invasion by Oksana Maksymchuk (Carcanet)In her first collection in English, Ukrainian-American Maksymchuk documents life in her home city of Lviv and across Ukraine \u2014 from the dread of invasion in late 2021 to the reality of being under attack. Using others\u2019 accounts as well as her own, she immerses us in a world where fear and violence seep in to the point where they are startlingly routine: \u201chow normal it all now feels\/how boring\u201d.Conflicted Copy\u00a0by Sam Riviere (Faber)It might be a brave leap for a poet to create a collection using Open AI\u2019s GPT2 \u2014 or, arguably, it\u2019s the logical evolution from William Burroughs\u2019 cut-ups and Bowie\u2019s Verbasizer. Either way, here Riviere has worked with the open-source network to produce poems that intrigue, like carnival mirrors, reflecting and distorting our \u2014 and perhaps the machine\u2019s \u2014 concepts of what poetry should be.Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Caf\u00e9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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