Letters Against the Firmament Tsead Bruinja

Letters Against the Firmament Tsead BruinjaSean Bonney Letters Against the Firmament is a users report on the end of the world, a treatise against Tory terror, a proposal for a new zodiac, a defence of poetry, a hex against the devourers of planet earth. The Letters are fierce epistolary poems, a vivid account of the sheer panic and brutality of the Austerity years. They are apocalyptic screeds of black humour hammered out in an obscure corner of east London, fearful attempts to ward off the

and words and phrases in at least a dozen languages

rather it is one of expectation

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and its admirers have included Salvador Dalì―who dubbed it the most "ungraspably poetic" work of the era―André Breton

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with an intimate focus on interior voice

Falcon with Sun Overhead and The Age of Entertainment inspired a new generation of Iraqi poets

observing the detritus of his home city

De Vries’ aphoristic writing belies a vengeful reversal of roles in which the author—and not her perpetrator—pulls the strings

finally surrendered to her

or a threat

The Thomas Salto forms its poetics in the shadow of the Soviet Union