Deathless by Catherine Balaq PRE-ORDER Ruby Robinson ‘Chen Chen refuses to be

‘Chen Chen refuses to be boxed in or nailed down

often with laughter

- Clare Best

Brilliant Corners is both an inquiry into and a redressal of inherited cultures and the language that trips off our tongue

and described by John Kinsella as a ‘masterpiece’

Deathless by Catherine Balaq PRE-ORDER Ruby Robinson ‘Chen Chen refuses to bePublished 17th October 2024. Available for pre order. Sex and death are truisms. We begin through the act of one and the other is the ultimate exit. Deathless, Catherine Balaqs astonishing second collection, moves between the two, expanding on tropes of sexuality and creation acts with a core (spine?) of sonnets that speak back to their origins. Both traditional and modern, the poems in Deathless turn the male gaze into the female subject and