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“I was very lucky. The end of the world had already occurred [...] You have to keep living. You have to make it not become waiting". Graham's Fast occupies a different space–temporally and emotionally–to her previous collections. Writing nearly a decade ago, in Sea Change, Graham considered “where we are headed'and found that this “desire to imagine/the future" is analogous to “walking in the dark through a house you know by/heart”. Certain poems underlined the arrogance and ignorance of fearlessly thinking we can predict the future. Fast, on the other hand, does not speak of imagining the future. In this collection, we seem to have arrived...