The Rose of Toulouse

Fred D’Aguiar

Carcanet Collection  

The Rose of Toulouse is a book of geographies tracing the various places the poet has lived, their histories, and his own history as he travels away from who he was. His transformations and shifts – between Britain, Guyana and the USA – are his identity: ‘Each year I travel, my passport photo / looks less like me.’ In both flexible free verse and more formally patterned poems, D’Aguiar conveys the fragility of flesh and the transience of memories.

This title is available in the following collections: Carcanet Collection  

  • Author: Fred D’Aguiar
  • Publisher: Carcanet
  • ISBN: 9781847772299