Dame Julie Andrews' Botched Vocal Surgery by Katherine Meehan Kyle Flemmer Eating The Archive by Yousif

Eating The Archive by Yousif M

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” a heedfulness absent in a contemporary world where both simplistic analysis and solutions constantly fail to address threats to our very existence

one of the most ambitious poets writing in any language… Narrative Poem represents a stunning achievement of both poet and translator

“Full of astonishingly good poems which tease or surprise us into meditations" – Robert Towers

Dame Julie Andrews' Botched Vocal Surgery by Katherine Meehan Kyle Flemmer Eating The Archive by YousifIn the title poem of Katherine Meehans debut collection, Dame Julie Andrews Botched Vocal Cord Surgery and Other Poems, the poet presents an examination of losses, failures, and griefs, all of them tempered by an unusual humour. Grounded in the particularities of location, these poems wander between urban and rural spaces, from Los Angeles and Appalachia to the English home counties. Glass eels, Grendels mother and a host of nameless losers are given