Scale by Mina Gorji Ian McDonald under the constellations of aircraft

under the constellations of aircraft holding patterns

In the Lateness of the World is a dark book of crossings

Hiddensee offers a radically European and multilingual perspective to counter the cultural narrowness and closing borders of the current age

ground-breaking anthology

exceptionally felicitous marriage of poetry and politics

Scale by Mina Gorji Ian McDonald under the constellations of aircraftAt the volcano's edge, in exilic space, at the bottom of the Arctic Sea, or in the acid clouds of Venus, Mina Gorji's Scale traces life at its limits. The poems range across scales of distance, temperature and time, from vast to minute, glacial to volcanic, Pleistocene to present day, constellation to millipede. Adapting to the cold of a new continent opens a chromatic investigation of feeling. Shifting between scales, from insect to ancient star,