Joe Hill Makes His Way into the Castle

A Guardian Poetry Book of the Year, 2024. Made homeless by her landlord’s rent hike, her isolation compounded by Covid lockdowns, Katy Evans-Bush began talking to the American poet Kenneth Patchen (1911–72), whose poems she had first read in her teens, and Patchen talked back. The result is this storm of poems that encompass rage, hunger for justice and laughter in the dark.