Poetry Book Society Winter 2020 Recommendation
The new form which Parkes has developed, the Gimbal, allows a pivot between, as the poet himself has described it “logic/theory/reason” and “emotion/feeling”; it’s an intricate but deftly deployed construction which speaks to the core strength of this collection, a fierce and exuberant language which is always held tightly in control. The collection contains some beautifully-realised poems of family and parents (“your mother’s embrace is a furnace”), or the wonderful poem ‘YEAR AD 87: BM14’, which salvages from “a world that showers so much terror on skin so dark” the joy and hope of the next generation.
This is a review of The Geez
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