Bitten Hair by Tessa Berring Marius Kociejowski that ‘flight of sinew and

that ‘flight of sinew and gold’

  Combining vigour with ingenuity

Esther Jansma

hunters grow hungry and their languages are lost

but strong

Bitten Hair by Tessa Berring Marius Kociejowski that ‘flight of sinew and"There is both tenderness and violence in this bookand there is a beautiful need for reality, that undeniable urge to run barefoot downstairs still drizzled with sex or soap to quarter persimmons. The need for reality gives us strangeness. The strangeness gives lyric, that voice, so delicate and so raw: one feels like one is overhearing a love song in a time when all love songs are in crisis. Which of course exactly this book is. It takes broken