What Planet by Miriam Gamble Charles Tomlinson fifty-six poets speak to what

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she retunes the genre for modern ears

What Planet by Miriam Gamble Charles Tomlinson fifty-six poets speak to whatThe poems in Miriam Gambles third collection journey surreally through scenes and landscapes at once of the world and of the mind, finding little, as they go, that 'can be claimed self evident'. By turns uncanny, dark, poignant and uproarious, What Planet sets the individuality of perception and the inventiveness of memory against fixed certainties, probing chaos and madness in a post truth world. Rhythmically propulsive and dizzyingly inter