Talk a Blue Streak by Lila Matsumoto Alan Buckley Anthropocene focuses on today’s most

Anthropocene focuses on today’s most important topics: Climate Change and pandemics – and the possibility of consolation

Throughout the collection

domesticated animals eyeing the wild

poems that send daylight into the dark that threatens to overwhelm us – and could not be more necessary to the times in which we live

She finds a peace in the natural world and rejoices in those moments of ecstatic recklessness that remind us to be present

Talk a Blue Streak by Lila Matsumoto Alan Buckley Anthropocene focuses on today’s mostPublished 21st May 2026 Talk a Blue Streak, Lila Matsumoto's third collection, is an innovative experiment in poetic memoir and story telling. With a rigorous commitment to artifice, the interlinked sequences trace the formative impressions of a childhood and teenage years spent in America encountering its language and customs: on road trips, in student dorms, with alternative music and junk food. Hugely pleasurable and often very funny, Talk a Blue