Rajiv Mohabir
Cutlish
Four Way Books, 2021
$16.95
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These are mostly chutney poems based on chutney music from the Indo-Caribbean communities of Trinidad and Guyana, specifically Sundar Popo's “Kaise Bani" and
“Scorpion Gyul."
Poems read:
“Cutlish”
“The Po-Co Kid”
“Indo-Queer I”
“Dove (or Tell Me the Number of Your Plane)”
“Dantaal, An Instrument”
former DMQ Review Contributor
Paul scully
The Fickle Pendulum
Interactive Press, 2021
Print AUD26; E-book AUD13
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The Fickle Pendulum assays belief and doubt through three historical figures —St Thomas the Apostle, Galileo Galilei, and Laura (Riding) Jackson, and uses them to pivot into wider worlds in langauge that is thoughtful, exploratory and never weighed down by its subject matter. The reader ineluctably mixes his or her own meditations with the poet's.
carol westberg
Ice Lands
David Robert Books, 2022
$19.00
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Former Maine Poet Laureate Betsy Sholl calls Ice Lands “a luminous and stunning book, blending grief with wisdom and awe.” Says UVA professor Lisa Russ Spaar, this book “reads like a gathering of koans, a breviary for navigating the second decade of the twenty-first century. Whether confronting the imperiled planet, the eroding political landscape, the ambages of late middle-age…the poems move with an insomniacal attentiveness through all manner of ‘ambient threats too huge to take in.’”
Poems read:
“Once More with No Feeling”
“Bitter House”
“Inch by Inch”
former DMQ Review Contributor