Know Thy Audience by Nadia de Vries Alan Felsenthal from the launch of the

from the launch of the Rubik’s Cube to the first appearance of the phrase

It features an assorted cast: lovers and sisters

and succeeds in helping us at least try to understand human frailties

Mancunia is both a real and an unreal city

but instead an extraordinary ability to render our home the alien planet it is

Know Thy Audience by Nadia de Vries Alan Felsenthal from the launch of theKnow Thy Audience, Nadia de Vries's third poetry collection, disavows the platitude from which it takes its name and makes the reader complicit in both her aggression and her submission, sparked by a history of domestic abuse that escapes all euphemism and metaphor but not poetry altogether. Speaking or rather, singing as a 'battered woman' from a working class neighborhood, De Vries' aphoristic writing belies a vengeful reversal of roles in which the