The Green-go Turn of Telling Jennifer Langer

The Green-go Turn of Telling Jennifer LangerThe Green go Turn of Telling is a poetic excavation of self, of the shards of a once broken soul. Each lyric poem is shaped by human wreckage, but also the rescuing force of female wildness. This theme is most clearly captured in the final love poems, which move through fracture and reluctance to recognition that plain hand cranked love can restore human connection to the scorned and lonely self. Here is all of the heartbreak and gravity of being

The poems are marked by a muscular tension

cover artist: Sattar Kawoosh

Every fan of poetry and women's writing will find their own surprises and pleasures in this collection

and Ostentation of Peacock is a full display of his transatlantic talent

… and many more

He has also published two novels and

grasper of nettles

They love the complexities while yearning for simplicity

Gerard Smyth

but most of all humour

but to those with wider postcolonial interests in the creolising process

An Absence of Ruins was originally published in 1967