Brakspear’s poetry is like spindrift from a beautiful yet perilous shoreline: things look gorgeous from this littoral vantage, but the breeze is always silted with toxins. Things have to be this way, of course. For there is a species-chafing from way back, and you will recognise it in the mnemic openings of this language—the “syllabic dehiscence”, the “fricative unbalm-/ing”. Wipe off the film and peer hard into the numinous. The opalescent grit of Cabaret sticks in the eye and heart.
Featuring illustrations by Ratface 95, their stark chiaroscuro compounding the vertigo of a strange waking dream of... drifts of urban dejection, and cemented unease...
(A5, 34 pages)
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