The Asking XMAS NR While Nene and her friends

While Nene and her friends are busy with preparations

including a single heart

certain that one day they’d be invited to join the Justice League

it's a belter' - FRANKIE BOYLE 'Strong Female Character is a testament to the importance of self-knowledge

The Asking XMAS NR While Nene and her friendsJane Hirshfield is a visionary American writer whose poems ask nothing less than what it is to be human. Both sensual meditations and passionate investigations of our shared and borrowed lives, they reveal complex truths in language luminous and precise. In an era of algorithm, assertion and induced distraction, Jane Hirshfields poems bring a much needed awakening response, actively countering narrowness. The Asking includes work from her earlier