Literary reviews by Tim Love.
Warning: Rather than reviews, these are often notes in preparation for reviews that were never finished, or pleas for help with understanding pieces. See Litref Reviews - a rationale for details.

Saturday, 3 May 2025

"Arcades" by Imogen Cassels (Sad Press, 2018)

Poems from The White Review, LRB, etc

Here's the start of the first poem -

SPRING POEM
baby, you are. This week is a vein
I want to un-throb or de-ice, after my
untenable name. Then, but, forget-me-nots
tessellate

I don't get it. And here's the final stanza of the 2 page poem, "Roulette for solo voice" -

there are days when every bell becomes a lemon.
each other night I go to sleep imagining you,
in the chapel, green grass grow/ing over my feet.

Why "each other night"? Why isn't "each" capitalised? Why the "/" (the first in the poem)?

Not for me.

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