A startling collection of poetry, prose-poetry and prose that resists literary colonisation.
Tag: Poetry
Review: Nganajungu Yagu by Charmaine Papertalk Green
A beautiful, profoundly moving tribute to the relationship between mother and daughter.
Review: Crow by Ted Hughes
A fascinating and ugly collection of poetry.
Review: Guillotine by Eduardo C. Corral
These are brutal, bruised poems, like desert storms, lit with lightning strokes of beauty.
Review: Rainforest by Eileen Chong
These are austere, still poems about the things embodied in words.
Review: The Lost Arabs by Omar Sakr
The Lost Arabs is a collection of cosmological, mystical poetry, a search for belonging and god in hell on earth.
Review: Throat by Ellen van Neerven
Ellen van Neerven conjures magic from trauma in this fluid collection full of warmth and light.
Review: The Tradition by Jericho Brown
The tradition is violation: of the land, of women, and especially black men’s bodies.
Review: Blakwork by Alison Whittaker
Whittaker’s poetic language is urgent but timeless, vernacular but formally rigorous, totally unique.
