The Rose of Toulouse

Fred D’Aguiar

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.

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This title is available in the following collections: Carcanet Collection  

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