This Hall of Several Tortures by Reuben Woolley Random House Will Harris complicates and experiments

Will Harris complicates and experiments with the lyric in a way that urges it forward

But perhaps her greatest inspiration is the Welsh landscape and all the human stories that it hosts: as UK Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy has said

close attention: ‘…the chief of police/facedown in a pool of Coca-Cola

She captures a view of the upper reaches of the River Thames that is entirely fresh

abandoning the lyric voice for a collective register

This Hall of Several Tortures by Reuben Woolley Random House Will Harris complicates and experimentsIve never read a collection where the spacing between words works so well. That phrase is so often a cliche, but not here. The sense of haunting, of an absence (i dance on horizons and dont cast shadows) then a fleeting presence is handled brilliantly, with the reader aware (just enough) of multiple voices. The repeated she said is used eerily and almost hypnotically, and the writing has moments of intense beauty, but never enough to settle the