Volvelle by Rachael Boast Palestine For over half a century

For over half a century

the loss of rural landscapes and the role death can play in these spaces

How else do we return to ourselves but to foldThe page so it points to the good part

and writes in English

quick-witted and never self pitying

Volvelle by Rachael Boast Palestine For over half a centuryVolvelle, Rachael Boast's fifth collection, pulls at the thread linking our contemporary anxieties concerning fragmentation and technological acceleration to the need to sustain ancient forms of connection with one another and the planet. Embodying something of this in its elegant, recurring consonants ' conjuring love, revolve, evolve ' is the titular volvelle: a medieval analogue computer made of paper and used to perform an enormous range of