Drypoint by Jamie McKendrick Olivia Gatwood But what is it to

But what is it to be deeply certain of an urgent calling to womanhood all of one’s life yet violently excluded from such a becoming

And beetles

Geordie and English critique ableism

they also fill with a language that’s alive with rustling beeches

Patrick Worsnip's translations honour the poet’s use of traditional Italian forms while using appropriately colloquial diction

Drypoint by Jamie McKendrick Olivia Gatwood But what is it toJamie McKendrick's Drypoint depicts the turbulent present with incisive detail while often taking us back to an equally conflictual Biblical or classical world. Acute and stoical in tone, these poems transport us by bus or ferry or ghostly Rolls Royce to the cobbled streets of Ferrara, the once Greek port of Smyrna, the bombed acres of Liverpool and Mariupol, and to places not to be found on any map, places where 'North was south, being lost like