Aurora Town is the hotly anticipated first collection from Eric Gregory Award winner Annie Katchinska. It takes its title from an underground shopping street in Sapporo, a city in the north of Japan where Katchinska lived for two years. The poems are warped, diced up, loosely autobiographical texts built from her notebooks, illuminated by a ceaselessly inventive creative spirit. Aurora Town neatly captures the displacement and loneliness of living far from home, of turning to faith and then losing it, in a style which is completely her own.
 
Annie Katchinska was born in Moscow in 1990 and grew up in London. She was a Faber New Poet in 2010. In 2018 she won an Eric Gregory Award and her pamphlet Natto was published by If A Leaf Falls Press.