From what I've seen his form of poetry makes use of the whole page, not as in scattered individual words but as metrical spacing of phrases ..read more

Dog and Moon is a slow read, not because it is hard so much as it is rich and rewarding, so satisfies early and often ..read more

A hallmark of Kidney’s already distinguished early career, Devotional Forensics shows exceptional range ..read more

Tom Wayman’s latest poetry collection is full of surprises ..read more

The Knot of My Tongue: Prose and Poems is a complex and rewarding read that has drawn me back to the poems repeatedly ..read more

In G, Klara du Plessis and Khashayar “Kes” Mohammadi look at a single sound that connects two parts of the world that we rarely imagine in proximity, Iran and South Africa. They do so by exploring the voiceless uvular fricative and its close cousin, the voiced velar fricative, which are presented phonetically by the Greek letters chi (x) and gamma (ɣ) and are generally transposed into a roman alphabet as ch (e.g., loch) or kh (e.g., Khalil ..read more

As an author of fifteen poetry collections and an editor of several more, one approaches the work of Brian Bartlett with no small degree of trepidation ..read more

In the world I inhabit much of what is commonly understood about mutual attraction continues to be based on cis-gendered heterosexual and patriarchal ideas of what "sex" is, of what we understand to be "male" or "female" to be. Anything else is queer, as in othered ..read more

It's a book with a changing music that bears rereading well ..read more

What do we stand to lose or gain from our inherited identities? For Cory Lavender, the answer might exist within how he curates domestic musings ..read more