in doing everything he can to avoid his vocation
Wendy Cope observing the livestock at a country fair
Self Heal brims with riotous and tender experimental lyrics on love
like cage fighting with two opponents
and Lannan and Guggenheim Fellowships
Small Change by Steph Ellen Feeney Jo Brandon in doing everything he canSmall Change by Steph Ellen Feeney is a radiant, unflinching collection that distils the seismic transformations of new motherhood into a sequence of poems both intimate and expansive. With lyrical clarity and fierce emotional intelligence, Feeney traces the blur of postnatal days, sleeplessness, bodily estrangement, rural isolation, small joys and submerged rage, crafting a poetics of contradiction, beauty and survival. The work is formally nimble,