Devour Everything by Sarah Stewart Every Little Sound as Blandiana attempts a courageous

as Blandiana attempts a courageous renovation of traditional verse forms

Tanya Shirley and Karen McCarthy Woolf

There are touching elegies

awake to every syllable: ‘Artless// is my heart

'Fantastic

Devour Everything by Sarah Stewart Every Little Sound as Blandiana attempts a courageousDevour Everything' is a love letter to heroic failure, to creation in the face of destruction, to the mundane made sacred. Ranging from New York to small town Aberdeenshire, from pop culture to Norse Valkyries, and wrestling with issues of motherhood, memory and loss, Sarah Stewart's deftly illuminating debut collection reminds us that as humans "we are animals and our bodies remember things". 'In Sarah Stewart's poems we slide between worlds,