Fragile July by Oscar Nearly scottish through Hollie's driving

through Hollie's driving

Peter Sirr

where the poet meets his Beatrice

made famous recently in a recording by the actor

Formally deft and classically inspired

Fragile July by Oscar Nearly scottish through Hollie's drivingFragile July by Oscar Nearly is a mesmeric, slow burn excavation of memory, trauma, and domestic unreality, rendered through the porous, looping rhythms of prose poetry. Framed as a forensic reconstruction of a childhood summer, the text interweaves photographic description, childhood games, fragmentary scenes, and the ominous repetition of family motifs, digging, watching, swinging, with a precise, dissociative calm. Nearly's style is hallucinatory