All the Pretty Lights by Gerry McGrath Mary Jean Chan they unveil startling avenues of

they unveil startling avenues of thought that tremble with unsettled feeling

we understand that within their ‘bones Holodomor / lives on’

quiet is strafed with stutters of speech

is not hermetic

As each new movement writhes with pain

All the Pretty Lights by Gerry McGrath Mary Jean Chan they unveil startling avenues ofAll the Pretty Lights is a revelation, a book of poems which speaks to many worlds while finding a common ground for all. Here Gerry McGrath's poems manage to balance, often on a knife edge, between the typical and the weird, the domestic and the otherworldly, the ordinary and the metaphysical. All the Pretty Lights does what the best poetry is supposed to do: it enlarges the reader's universe, and helps us find answers to the eternal mysteries of