Ortileus's Sea Monsters by Stephanie Green Penned in the Margins and the early poems collected

and the early poems collected here provide a varied retrospect

Innovative poetic forms mirror the nonlinear experiences of trauma survivors

At last I have the chance to make amends

Does experience experience me

In this tensile and delicately stranded poetry of survival

Ortileus's Sea Monsters by Stephanie Green Penned in the Margins and the early poems collectedOrtelius' Sea Monsters by Stephanie Green is the winner of the Alastair Reid pamphlet prize, 2023 (Wigtown Festival). The poems explore a wide range of trauma inspired by various mythological sea monsters depicted on Ortelius' 1590 map of Iceland and surrounding seas. Ortelius Sea Monsters is outstanding I relished each encounter This is a work which is a triumph both for the writers imagination and their wide and surprising range of poetic skills.