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A hybrid new collection from the author of Three Poems-about London, terror, new motherhood, the Grenfell Tower fire, and how we live now.Hannah Sullivan's first collection, Three Poems, won the T. S. Eliot Prize and the inaugural John Pollard International Poetry Prize. Was It for This continues that book's project, offering a trenchant exploration of the ways in which we attempt to map our lives in space and time.But there is also the wider,...

Was It for This is a hybrid new collection from Hannah Sullivan, the author of Three Poems (winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize and the John Pollard Prize)-about London, terror, postpartum anxiety, the Grenfell Tower fire, and how we live now...

Was It for This continues that book's project, offering a trenchant exploration of the ways in which we attempt to map our lives in space and time. 'Tenants', the first poem, is an elegy for Grenfell, written from the partial and self-reproachful perspective of a new mother living a few streets away.

Three Poems, Hannah Sullivan's debut collection, which won the 2018 T. S. Eliot Prize, reinvents the long poem for a digital age. "You, Very Young in New York" paints the portrait of a great American city, paying close attention to grand designs as well as local details, and coalescing in a wry and tender study of romantic possibility, disappointment, and the obduracy of innocence. "Repeat Until Time" shifts the scene to California and combine...

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Suppose you have a teacher who knows the secret of life. A teacher who can show you what it takes to live to the fullest, to love until your heart bleeds out-to have it all, and then to let it all go. Now, suppose your teacher is only five weeks old. When the Sullivans are told their unborn child has a congenital heart defect, they have no idea where the news will lead them. Their dreams of bedtime cuddles and soft baby coos give way to the in...

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Revision seems to be an intrinsic part of good writing. But Hannah Sullivan argues that we inherit our faith in redrafting from the modernist period. Examining changes made in manuscripts, typescripts, and proofs by Eliot, Joyce, Woolf, and others, she shows how rewriting shapes literary style, and how the impulse to touch up can go too far.