FIRTH by Garry Mackenzie Kwame Dawes ‘This second collection by the

‘This second collection by the China-born poet continues his exploration of family – both blood and chosen – examining what one inherits and what one invents as a queer Asian American living through the era of Trump

natural settings and photographed landscapes serve to collapse the distance between the speaker and the world she inhabits

"Can you see this

for and about parents

The witches of Macbeth around their cauldron on Halloween

FIRTH by Garry Mackenzie Kwame Dawes ‘This second collection by theFirth is a poetic portrait of the Firth of Forth. It reaches back into the deep geological past and forward into a troubled future of pollution and extinction, via the boom and bust of the nineteenth century fishing industry. At that time, government advisors recommended against regulating fishing in the Forth estuary, despite the wishes of fishermen who feared the fish population would be decimated without restrictions on trawling. Within a few