Debbie Lim, Beastly Eye Eleven fictive poets from Latin

Eleven fictive poets from Latin America

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Winner of the 2021 Patrick White Literary Award

Khaing Mar was able to write poetry free from the Burmese censorship board and the risk of imprisonment faced by dissident poets inside the country

Debbie Lim, Beastly Eye Eleven fictive poets from LatinThe notion of gaze both animal and human threads through the poems in Beastly Eye. These are quietly intense lyrics in which attentiveness to the natural world unsettles with details that are often both beautiful and strange. Whether it is the reflection in a cats eye, a portrait of the elusive vampire squid, or the haunting plaster casts of Pompeii, central to these poems is the way controlled image opens into larger meditations on mortality and what