The threat of violence is never far away in Anthony Anaxagorou's breakthrough collection After the Formalities. Technically achieved, emotionally transformative and razor-sharp, these are poems that confront and contradict; poems in which the scholarly synthesises with the streetwise, and global histories are told through the lens of one family.

A breakthrough collection of poems addressing the subjects of division and dominance. Technical, emotional and sharp, examining race, class and masculinity in the Britain of the present.