Divided Tongues - Softcover

Roberts, Patrick Davidson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1917617496 ISBN 13: 9781917617499

Publisher: Broken Sleep Books, 2025

Synopsis

Patrick Davidson Roberts' Divided Tongues is a structurally expansive and thematically intricate collection that navigates national identity, violence, myth, and displacement with tonal precision and rhetorical urgency. Drawing on scriptural echoes, historical figures, and contemporary disaffection, the poems assemble a polyphonic lyric that shifts between reportage, lament, and surreal invocation. With recurring motifs of exile, fractured lineage, and cultural inheritance, Roberts interrogates the weight of language as both burden and possibility. The result is a layered poetic landscape where borders, geographic, linguistic, emotional, are repeatedly crossed and contested.  

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About the Author

Patrick Davidson Roberts was born in 1987 and grew up in Sunderland and Durham. He was editor of The Next Review magazine 2013-2017, co-founded Offord Road Books press in 2017 and reviews for The Poetry School and The High Window. His debut collection is The Mains (Vanguard Editions, 2018), and a chapbook, The Trick (Broken Sleep Books, 2023), was recently published. His poetry has elsewhere been published in 14 Magazine, Acumen, Ambit, The Dark Horse, Eyot, The Interpreter's House, Long Poem Magazine, Magma, The Quince, The Rialto, and on Atrium, Bad Lilies, The High Window, One Hand Clapping and Wild Court, as well as in anthologies published by Culture Matters, New River Press, Sidekick Books and Vanguard Editions.

Edition details

• Publisher: Broken Sleep Books
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1917617496
• ISBN 13: 9781917617499
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 78