Animal Experiments / Anja Konig

The Telegraph Poetry Book of the Month, June 2020

Laurel Prize 2021 Longlist

‘Every so often—and it’s not very often—we stumble upon a collection which immediately establishes a new voice on the block. Anja König is precisely the antidote we need to the interesting times in which we live.‘ John Glenday

‘These poems carry a wild and devastating emotional heft.’ Jacqueline Saphra

Anja Konig’s first collection is a book we need now more than ever. In an era of tribalism, it’s rare to encounter a voice so committed to identifying the root of things as they really are, and then laying those findings bare with benign frankness. While the world ends around us daily, these pages offer a macro and micro view, in which we find ourselves both culpable and insignificant, and it is in that paradox that, perhaps, we might be redeemed.

PAPERBACK      ISBN: 978-1-913268-05-3     PUBLISHED 3RD JUNE 2020