During the pandemic, when our experience of the world became largely a matter of thin threads of communication via technology when we couldn't manage it any other way, didn't the world seem loud and bossy? Against its imperatives, I imagined rain as a kind of counterbalance (coming from elsewhere, bringing us new, connecting us physically with other landscapes, other worlds). Or perhaps truer to say that, because of where I live in Ireland, there was no need to imagine it: rain is pretty much a daily fact. As news is; and as life.
Vona Groarke on "For Now" |
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"More Than Enough For Everyone"
"We Want It All has been reprinted three times since the release, which feels utterly momentous for a 480-page bright pink brick. I’ve also been surprised at the different types of spaces and conversations We Want It All has travelled through....being a part of these types of spaces centered on the intimacy and immediacy of the body, sex & surgery, spaces that are very much outside of poetry is really exciting."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Evie Shockley on Jayne Cortez' "There It Is"
"Cortez’s trademark use of enumeratio—a rhetorical device that builds the force of an argument by offering detailed lists of the parts, causes, or effects of an issue—drives home the ruthlessness of this class of people: “They will try to exploit you / absorb you confine you / disconnect you isolate you / or kill you.” Enumeratio forms the poem’s fundamental structure." |
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