You lie underwater, under clarity –
anything I catch sight of
is familiar and wrong.

This is a debut of interlocking narratives through which we encounter the Tang dynasty poet and Daoist nun, Yu Xuanji, as well as a young deer recast as the evolving and emerging adolescent, and the tensions of life in a small village. At the heart of it are poems that grapple with the impact and aftershocks of the murder of a friend. Tang interrogates the potency and limitations of violence, grief and language, while disarming us with its wit and inventiveness.

‘Exceptional work by a dazzlingly fresh writer’ Declan Ryan

‘Nasim Luczaj is an extraordinary new voice; each poem in Tang thrills with unexpected twists and razor sharpness. Her debut collection is sensational’ Pascale Petit