The Palace of Forty Pillars

'Davoudian is an enchanting and intriguing new voice' Sunday Times'In this formally radical debut, Armen Davoudian shows how rhyme enacts longing for a homeland left behind; how meter sings to a lost beloved; and how a combination of the two can map a self - or idea of the self - relinquished so that a new life, and all the happiness it deserves, can take shape' Paul Tran'Marks the arrival of a notable new voice .