A dead parent, the interrogation of a literary inheritance, and over everything, a bird: Max Porter is apparently unafraid to step into massive shoes. Not just the colossal ones belonging to Ted Hughes, whose ‘Crow’ poems are the jumping-off point for this free-verse novella about a bereaved Hughes scholar visited by Hughes’s corvine manifestation, but also those of Helen Macdonald.
Sarah Ditum
The voice of Crow
If only Max Porter were less under Ted Hughes’s wing, his striking verse novella, Grief is a Thing with Feathers, would properly have taken flight and soared
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