Becky Balfourth
nobody now writing has Matthew’s gift for employing language and images of fable to such a dark and unsettling effect
There is also an inward eye
Over the course of 147 ‘songs’ we accompany the pair on their journey through the Bad Place
Before Lyricism includes six book-length poems: "The Forest" (1954)
Little Estuaries by Daniel Kramb Boiler House Press Becky BalfourthIn Little Estuaries, Daniel Kramb goes in search for whats fleeting between the shores. Amid a constantly shifting sense of what can be seen, sensed, experienced, the poet probes the estuary as sphere: an opening up, a possibility. Whittled down, like sea to stream, his poems emerge, in their own distinct form, estuary shaped on the page. Intricate, at times playful, always open, these unassuming, small pieces reach beyond the confines, always