Literary reviews by Tim Love.
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Monday, 11 May 2026

"Light year" by Jennifer Wong (Nine Arches Press, 2025)

Poems from Poetry London, Poetry Wales, Finished Creatures, etc.

In "Light Year" I have trouble with -

  • "Even if a star dies, its light echoes around the cosmos." - in what way "echoes"? What does the light bounce off? Or alternatively, what does "star" mean other than "star"?
  • "As the supernova shuttles through space\               at the speed of light, its echo         expands" - in what way "shuttles" (i.e. goes back and forth)? In what way does it have an echo? What do all the spaces mean?

and I have problems with the poems in section IV. "Diary" is my favourite piece, followed by "when you stopped speaking to me for a whole year".

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