Review

The Low Passions: Poems by Anders Carlson-Wee Norton, March 2019 80 pages / Amazon / Bookshop   In The Low Passions, poet Anders Carlson-Wee thumbs his way through the new…

Egress: On Mourning, Melancholy and Mark Fisher by Matt Colquhoun Repeater, March 2020 301 pages / Bookshop / Amazon   The past few months have seen much speculation on what…

Ordinary Girls by Jaquira Díaz Algonquin Books, October 2019 336 pages / Bookshop / B&N / Amazon   “All my life I’d been waiting for this book.” Ashley Perez from…

On Lighthouses by Jazmina Barrera, translated by Christina MacSweeney Two Lines Press, May 2020 174 pages / Bookshop / Amazon    I wanted to know the lighthouse to its very…

Whiteout Conditions by Tariq Shah Two Dollar Radio, March 2020 114 pages / Bookshop / Amazon   Tariq Shah’s spare debut novel, Whiteout Conditions, finds itself at the intersection of…

Oneiromancy by Winétt de Rokha, Translated by Jessica Sequeira Smokestack Books, November 2019 / Amazon   “I went writing your name on leaves of Amaranth,” begins “Language Without Words” from…

Say Mother Say Hand: An Anti-Memoir by Marie Conlan Half Mystic Press, April 2020 116 pages / Bookshop   In Marie Conlan’s debut book, Say Mother Say Hand, healing is done…

For the Ride by Alice Notley Penguin, March 2020 144 pages / Bookshop / Amazon   In The Job, his book of interviews with Daniel Odier, William Burroughs maintains: When…

Peripatet by Grant Maierhofer Inside the Castle, August 2019 540 pages / Bookshop / Amazon   If I leaf through a book, and ignore each word’s meaning, the pages resemble…

Beshrew by Danielle Pafunda Dusie Books, April 2019 60 pages / Bookshop / Amazon   Whether one values poetic complexity on the level of single words and tropes, emotional range,…

Letdown by Sonia Greenfield White Pine Press, March 2020 102 pages/ Bookshop / Amazon   You might look at the cover of Sonia Greenfield’s hybrid memoir Letdown with confusion. The…

Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism by Wendy Liu Repeater, March 2020 244 pages / Bookshop / Amazon   An Exceptional Valley  With tech worker unions and…

Scabby Queen by Kistin Innes Fourth Estate Press, forthcoming July 2020 400 pages / preorder Amazon UK / Waterstones   The Scabby Queen of Innes’ title is a designation of…

How Rabbit Went Down and Other Mishaps by Ann Stewart McBee Hoot n Waddle, March 2019 117 pages / SPD / Bookshop / Amazon   Ann Stewart McBee’s debut collection,…