Hear Anthony Anaxagorou read from his new poetry collection, After the Formalities. 

An Uber driver is racially abused on the day of the Brexit referendum. A father bathes his son in ice water. A schoolboy drives a drawing pin into a map of the world. The threat of violence is never far away in Anthony Anaxagorou's breakthrough collection. These are poems that confront and contradict; poems in which the scholarly synthesises with the streetwise and global histories are told through the lens of one family.