Baby Schema by Isabel Galleymore
POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION SPRING 2024 Azita Ghahreman Future Tense

Future Tense

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Adams offers us lyric essays to Welsh history

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Baby Schema by Isabel Galleymore<br><b>POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION SPRING 2024</b> Azita Ghahreman Future Tense'Trees crawling with babies, babiesdarting through the skyor buoyed by thermal vents, babiespainted with false eyes' ('Fable') In Isabel Galleymore's second collection, the adorable other is not just an imagined future child, but also a tree frog, a weather worn statue and often the speaker herself, who dreams of quitting adulthood and an endangered world. 'Mother Earth' is less an entity to be revered than a command to care giving. Lyrics and