Edward Ragg was born in Stockton-on-Tees in 1976 and since 2007 has lived in Beijing. He was a joint-winner of the 2012 Cinnamon Press Poetry Award and A Force That Takes was his first collection. His poems have appeared in numerous international magazines and anthologies, including the 2014 Forward Book of Poetry (Faber & Faber, 2013), Lung Jazz: Young British Poets for Oxfam (Eyewear Publishing/Cinnamon Press, 2012), Jericho & Other Stories & Poems (Cinnamon Press, 2012) and New Poetries IV (Carcanet, 2007). He is also the author of a number of critical works and articles on wine. Ragg is an Associate Professor at Tsinghua University and co-founder of Dragon Phoenix Wine Consulting. Holding Unfailing is his second poetry collection.
‘Intriguing, supple poems that range across the world and across
the landscapes of the mind.’ – Sarah Howe
‘This collection has for its central focus scenes from contemporary
China, observing with detachment and direct emotional intent those
personal landscapes which fan out from Ragg’s experiences of a
country undergoing profound change. Such landscapes and the
burdening memories accompanying them create poems of concentrated
philosophical energy.
They search and question. Ragg explores paths and places across a
world shot through with colour. Yet he reins back from the expected
celebratory note, in order to sift truth from falsehood, to travel
from height to abyss. This is a wide-ranging and thought-provoking
collection.’ – Penelope Shuttle
*Publisher: Cinnamon Press*
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