Portrait of Colossus Nigel Cawthorne who is specially trained to

who is specially trained to sniff out pests

" "I forgot to turn in the stupid application

government health care programs

These individual decisions accumulate to determine the outcome of wars

Social justice entails equal access to liberties

Portrait of Colossus Nigel Cawthorne who is specially trained toPortrait of Colossus is a searingly forthright debut that navigates parenting, masculinity, racism and ambiguities of identity. It articulates, with skill and sly humour, the migrant experience from the perspective of the second generation, the ones who "know [England] more than everywhere else put together". Brimming with vulnerability and pitched between the lilt of hooyo's admonitions and Ted Hughes' eye for the natural world, many of the poems