Reviewed by Juliano Zaffino || While it may seem paradoxical for prose to be at once stark and ornamentally lyrical, Bette Howland was not a writer to shy away from such a challenge.
Author: Juliano Zaffino
I am a writer and reader, and run the online literary community YourShelf, including The YourShelf Podcast and The YourShelf Press. My debut poetry collection, All Those Bodies And They’re Moving, was published 31 January 2020. Currently, I am studying for my PhD in ‘Cutting Shakespeare’, with the Shakespeare Institute and the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Tongues of Fire, by Seán Hewitt
Reviewed by Juliano Zaffino || Seán Hewitt’s debut full-length collection of poems, Tongues of Fire, begins in familiar territory, both figuratively and literally.
Handiwork, by Sara Baume
It is a kind of dark serendipity that a book about (amongst other things) what it means to live and create at the mercy of time and measured productivity – what Baume calls “the terrible responsibility” – should be launched in the midst of an international pandemic.
