Path Through Wood The Hormone of Darkness

Path Through Wood The Hormone of DarknessSam Buchan Watts Sam Buchan Watts debut collection considers the capacity contemporary lyric poetry has to reflect social change. The many ethical dilemmas these poems enact listen in to the noise which society makes to distract itself from carceral space to questions of asylum, masculinity and the boundaries of aesthetic play. Described by the Guardian as a sceptical, serious, versatile writer, Buchan Watts variously inhabits poetic form, exposing

with its retchable milk enemas and its devilish twists

and her poetry treads new ground between humanity

Radna Fabias (trans

but they too cannot escape ruin

from a psychiatric clinic to the sombre house where G’s mother must face her death

Allerlei figuren die dicht bij haarzelf staan drongen zich op

Examining our participation in social contracts

dat al zo lang onder wisselende bezettingen zucht

and it constitutes an ideal introduction to the achievement and vision of a legendary but in America still little-known contemporary master

and Cecilia Vicuña cites the Tao Te Ching

I Must Be Living Twice is a prism refracting a radical world and a compelling life

and the people and languages that sit either side of it