Rees’s poems ask how new routes can be forged across shifting terrain and she offers the emergent space of the imagination as the only answer
the tiny disruptions in grammar and syntax
What Astley and Robertson-Pearce have created for poetry readers is an opportunity to witness some of the most important poets in the English language giving voice to their own work
Yet there is a philosophical aspect to stack
Poems become pliable
In Search of Dustie-Fute by David Kinloch Elizabeth-Jane Burnett Rees’s poems ask how newWho is Dustie Fute? A vagrant, a hawker, a poet. A dustyfooted Scottish Orpheus. A stranger, a migrant, a ghost. In his search for Dustie Fute, David Kinloch begins amid the Parisian floods of 1910: with the waters rising, a lonely giraffe speaks from the abandoned zoo, witness to what seems the end of the world. Other animals chime in, Dustie Futes all, a hooved and humped chorus of watery sages. Elsewhere, two young college dudes quote Rilke at each