I Sugar The BonesI Sugar The Bones explores the crossing of borders between countries, people, languages, and the veil between life and death. Through the porosity of the US Mexico border or through toxic relationships, through geopolitical violence or Freudian slippages, through ghostly glitches, translingualism and radio signal interferences, or the role of rivers across history, Adcock invests in the liminal spaces and layering of different realities. Through

Tom and Raks are ready and up for it - it ain’t football - but Tom is hooked and can’t wait for the next home game

uncertain nights awake in a strange city

essayist and surgeon

depressing

but then all at once it was about books

The poem observes the ebb and flow of fortune

banking and professional capital of an enlightened Scotland

He told me that he was taken to England in 1938 in a Kindertransport with other Jewish children

equally in his native Argentina

since the daffodils

blood/heritage

But when your mummies are there to help you