Bloom by Sarah Westcott Rachel McCarthy features outstanding poems and vivid

features outstanding poems and vivid prose

like each poem in the book

including a trove of unseen letters post-honeymoon

but it further reinforces the impression given by the 1931 publications

catching the poetry's verve

Bloom by Sarah Westcott Rachel McCarthy features outstanding poems and vivid'Have you looked have you looked deeply?' ask these poems, rooted in the human body and its movement through an interconnected living world. Bloom, Sarah Westcott's second collection, approaches the cultural and physical spaces where human and non human lives co exist. These poems are attuned to a tender, bleeding world in which 'all flesh is grass' and language is matter. These are poems of resistance: attentive to non human life, 'eternal and