Four extracts from & When We Get There Will We Have Been There Forever? Ben Egerton is a poet whose most recent collection is The Seed Drill (Kelsay, 2023). He teaches in the Faculty of Education at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Ben was Poet in Residence at the Rivendell Institute at Yale for the second half of 2024.
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“It always starts with a body,” the world-weary, seen-it-all detective mutters, “then come the questions.”