712 Stanza Homes for the Sun by Cat Chong Paul Deaton Rooted in the varied domestic

Rooted in the varied domestic environments of the home front

imaginative and technically brilliant of the Old Norse skalds

The Mizzy encapsulates one of poetry’s most capacious and eclectic imaginations

Byrne’s hymn to his brother is bardic

Politics are never far away: modern man’s severance from the earth

712 Stanza Homes for the Sun by Cat Chong Paul Deaton Rooted in the varied domesticIn 712 Stanza Homes for the Sun Cat Chong gives voice to populations at the intersections of gender, literary genre, disability, race, and chronic illness. The hypnotic collection is complimented by a compelling array of internet screenshots: instagram, twitter, wikipedia etc to question how poetic language might replace dehumanising medical terminology and disrupt realities of state violence. This work engages with entangled and overlapping