Let Out the Djinn Rebecca FarmerThere is a double meaning in the title to this debut collection from Jane Aldous ? Jinn was her family nickname, and writing poetry feels like letting out her wild, mischievous spirit. For Jane, poetry is all about listening, and she invites us to listen to the imagined worlds of hunter gatherers, star gazers, mythical beings, wild creatures, the living and the dead, and the real world of a gay woman growing up in the 70s.
a flurry of response that is a ‘cosmos or order or harmony in a bag full of hard to categorize leaves’
The Caribbean is home to those persons who have traveled out
In the act of questioning what the years of “wuk” have achieved
Reem Ghanyem
During the war he wrote two books of poems
The Transmigration of Bodies is a noirish tragedy and a tribute to those bodies – loved
these fictions tell us about the world and about ourselves
Is the literary establishment still as dominated by men as it once was
That he is out and trying to engage at all feels like some kind of triumph
Alan Moore
After the world’s most isolated country emerged from Stalinist dictatorship and opened to capitalism
Poetry Ireland Review: The Rising Generation is edited by Vona Groarke and featured poets include Ailbhe Darcy
