Thin Spells by Kristina Diprose Kate Miller thriving or long-since shut

thriving or long-since shut

to be learnt by heart and taken to heart

This carefully curated collection of exercises asks only that you be vulnerable and honest

Mesopotamian fish gods

here’s Geoff’s singular way of looking at the world

Thin Spells by Kristina Diprose Kate Miller thriving or long-since shutThin Spells is a startling collection, in which the present is powerfully haunted by the ecological past. The poems are shot through with teeth, fur and feathers: from 'Cat Calling Card', charged with the energy of the hunt, to the snarling heart of 'Monokoke,' to the unsettling transformation of 'On Mother's Day' where the speaker slips 'into otter skin.' The poems consistently blur the unstable line between the animal and human and celebrate