Independent
Of Heads & Heartsbecomes more and more rewarding with each re-reading
With acrostic spell-poems by award-winning writer Robert Macfarlane and hand-painted illustration by Jackie Morris
Charley Reay
love and language amid the complexities of life
Fragile July by Oscar Nearly Elizabeth-Jane Burnett  IndependentFragile 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