Silk Work Philip Wilson Steer they came together and tried

they came together and tried to fathom the secrets of life by sharing their experiences and immersing themselves in symbolic images

Even the recovery of the Armour of David

sex and desire

asking some big twenty-first century questions about our relationships with privilege

A series of luminous

Silk Work Philip Wilson Steer they came together and triedIn Silk Work, Imogen Cassels debut collection, desire and grief are a double edged subject, elucidated through a kind of lyric diffidence. Forms, translations, folksongs, geographies of longing, and the work of memory are interplayed, though always with the haunting implication that the words we use to document our lives are never quite enough. As they weave multiple sources from literature, philosophy, visual art and history into ways of reading and