Last Poems BOTY_2025 His calling card—a torn piece

His calling card—a torn piece of fabric found on or inside the bodies of his victims—helped popularize his now ubiquitous nickname

Writers like Rachel Carson and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie named something no one had dared talk about before

and they were really fighting)

and Myrlie left school to focus on their growing family

he’s got the unusual deaths of three elderly Ankh-Morkporkians on his hands

Last Poems BOTY_2025 His calling card—a torn pieceLast Poems brings together the poems from Thomas Kinsella's five final Peppercanister pamphlets, originally collected as Late Poems (2013), along with a selection of new poems, fragments and revised work which the poet completed before his death in December 2021. An iconic figure in Irish literature, Thomas Kinsella was one of the great poets of the last century: his poems' concern with elemental questions, and a poetics which could be equal to them,