Words today swerve like sweet lace, pivot like fine dandelions, as though life were an obelisk turning blue in winter dark, as though gerunds could sleigh with pretty participles as though adjectives would smoke in a dark, unknown as though language were just transparent. A see-through Norwegian melody, Mina Loy and H.D. naming Read More
Millicent Borges Accardi’s fourth collection of poetry, Only More So, urges the reader to take a plunge “into frozen water” which abruptly rages into threatening currents. Accardi’s work has appeared in over fifty publications and she has received many literary fellowships, such as the NEA, Fulbright and the California Arts Council. Throughout her work, the Read More
The Merchant of Feathers is Jamaican poet Tanya Shirley’s second full collection, but she has also been anthologised by Kei Miller in New Caribbean Poetry (2007), one of the eight poets “in whose hands the future of Caribbean poetry… [is] secure”. Divided into three sections, the first, “The Alphabet of Shame” delves into childhood memory, Read More