Beast by Irene Solà Peepal Tree A powerful underlying current of

A powerful underlying current of emotion also drives these poems and is contained and restrained by the more austere formal qualities

and Mohamed Saleh Baouiya

or stumbling from a bar ‘like a monkey in the jungle of traffic

Nicholas Hughes

“all right

Beast by Irene Solà Peepal Tree A powerful underlying current ofBeast is the first collection in English from award winning Catalan poet Irene Sol, a darkly imaged, startling and lyrically precise exploration of gender, identity, sexuality and multiple forms of desire. Beast enters incisively, like claws. It arrives with gleaming fur and stinking. Its a creature that spills its guts and impels the same from otherspeoples, animals, limbs, foodstuffs, logical thinking, familial and sexual relations. In Irene Sols