That Broke Into Shining Crystals
Poetry Book Society Choice Spring 2025
Victoria Kennefick Wilson combines a deceptively light

Wilson combines a deceptively light touch with hard-earned palpable depth

Threaded with internal dialogue

and Royal Holloway University of London in partnership with Counterpoints Arts

He stumbled into the spotlight during the birth of the internet

Proof of Life on Earth

That Broke Into Shining Crystals<br><b>Poetry Book Society Choice Spring 2025</b><br> Victoria Kennefick Wilson combines a deceptively lightFor years I had no sound but his sweetness, his lye. Thus I go slow. I song last. Least. The lower. That which I had nor sound I may still song. Trauma and vulnerability violation and its aftershock are explored within a framework of self determination and radical queerness in Richard Scott's second collection. In three sequences, he documents what it is to have survived 'seismic assaults, the buried silences'. This is first pursued through still life