by Sofía Masondo | Nov 12, 2024 | Reviews
Hibbett reclaims monstrosity in High Jump as Icarus Story Gustav Parker Hibbett moves through the world with exclusion fused to the bones. First, from English studies; they were pushed to study STEM at Stanford on a scholarship: “We want you and your body in STEM, we...
by Sofía Masondo | Oct 21, 2024 | Reviews
Estrangement is a complex, brutal place, both to find yourself in and to inhabit. It’s also a dangerous place to write from, being fraught with exposure, stigma, judgment and misunderstanding; and potentially exhausting, given that in many estrangements there’s no...
by Kate Birch | Sep 4, 2024 | Reviews
At the Edge of Language Simon Maddrell, The Whole Island There are some diamonds that are mostly black because their unique crystalline structure absorbs most of the light. Change your perspective as you look at them and it seems that different parts...
by Kate Birch | Jul 8, 2024 | Reviews
The Adjustments (Two Rivers Press, 2024) assembles a narrative from pick-pocketed moments of a life presented in backwards motion. The poems within speak of multiple losses, grief – historic and new – and yet, the reader emerges from the pages with...
by Kate Birch | Jun 24, 2024 | Reviews
‘There is that kind of heat / in some hands’, S. Preston Duncan writes in his richly lyric poem ‘You Don’t Steal from the Witch’s Garden’ – and this extraordinary poet could be speaking of his own poetry – which blazes with a rare and precious artistic fire. In...
by Kate Birch | Jun 3, 2024 | Reviews
Birds Knit My Ribs Together has a meditational quality, timeless as nature itself, where we experience Barnett’s intimacy with birds. It’s a sharply observed, linguistically lively, lyrical collection which focuses almost exclusively on his deep and long-lasting...
