Caroline Williamson



D. Perez-McVie Reviews Luke Beesley and Caroline Williamson

We were all children once, but some of us more than others. In the Photograph (Giramondo Publishing, 2023) is Luke Beesley’s sixth book of poetry. Time Machines (Vagabond Press, 2023) is Caroline Williamson’s first collection. Children are central to both books. The speaker has a son in lots of Beesley’s poems, and Williamson’s has at least one kid present, too. The poets themselves were children once.

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The Croxton Bandroom

Maybe today was how old people might live in a perfect world. In the morning the pool for me and the exercise class for him because we are both of us trying to keep moving for as long as possible. …

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Venn diagram

There is the set of living creatures in the house with two legs (all humans?), those with four (dog and cat and an unknown number of mice and possibly rats), those with six (an unknown number of insects), those with …

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Dissecting the Apocalypse: Jorie Graham’s Sea Change

I will first attempt to develop one possible reading of ‘On the Concept of History’, taking for granted that any such reading exists alongside – and may even contradict – other more familiar interpretations. The second part of the article will follow this line of thinking in approaching Jorie Graham’s Sea Change, a collection of poetry that explores the catastrophic possibilities of global warming.

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