Martian's Regress
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE TS ELIOT PRIZE 2020**
From the winner of the Costa Poetry Award
A lone martian returns to Earth. He leaves behind him a hardened survivalist culture, its muddled myths and songs, its continued abuse of the environment that sustains it. During this journey back to the now-broken and long-abandoned mother planet, the martian begins to consider his own uncertain origins, and his o...
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE TS ELIOT PRIZE 2020**
From the winner of the Costa Poetry Award
A lone martian returns to Earth. He leaves behind him a hardened survivalist culture, its muddled myths and songs, its continued abuse of the environment that sustains it. During this journey back to the now-broken and long-abandoned mother planet, the martian begins to consider his own uncertain origins, and his o...
