The Museum of Unnatural Histories Dr Montserrat Roser i Puig

The Museum of Unnatural Histories Dr Montserrat Roser i PuigWhiting Award 2025 Winner in Poetry This extraordinary debut poetry collection by Dena'ina poet Annie Wenstrup delicately parses personal history in the space of an imagined museum. Outside the museum, Ggugguyni (the Dena'ina Raven) and The Museum Curator collect discarded French fries, earrings, and secretsor as the curator explains, together they curate moments of cataclysm. Inside the museum, their collection is displayed in installations that

Listen to the author reading his poems

and then when I fly

Daniel Day-Lewis

and the long work of grieving which culminates in the title poem

insightful collection of new work from some of poetry’s most talented emerging voices

the impact of being exposed to violence of this scale on a daily basis

with the awkward boy with ‘unwashed clothes’: ‘We hated the way you followed us around…’

The first issue is illustrated by Perienne Christian and features poems on Mexico’s Narco Wars

Drawing on the global canon

institutions – the roles we adopt

Hannah Nicholson

The 52 project started with a simple idea: Write a poem a week