This is the fourth in the Kinship series of five books ambitiously published and offering five different curated selections of writing on what kinship means. Persons is focussed on the idea of a person, what that means, how it affects being kin with one another and with a wider earth.

The breadth of voices here is admirable, and most of the essays and poems are excellent. I have had issue with this series for a few reasons, notably the extremely US-centric perspectives in two of the three I have read so far. While this book is also predominantly US-based writers, the array of cultures and perspectives on show is admirable and also enjoyable. I particularly appreciated Shannon Gibney's interview on being trans-racially adopted, and Liam Heneghan's playful and poetic view on being human. This was the best in the series so far for me.