Know Thy Audience by Nadia de Vries Alan Felsenthal as mode of transport to

as mode of transport to other dimensions

It features an assorted cast: lovers and sisters

desire their own species

Mancunia is both a real and an unreal city

Know Thy Audience by Nadia de Vries Alan Felsenthal as mode of transport toKnow Thy Audience, Nadia de Vries's third poetry collection, disavows the platitude from which it takes its name and makes the reader complicit in both her aggression and her submission, sparked by a history of domestic abuse that escapes all euphemism and metaphor but not poetry altogether. Speaking or rather, singing as a 'battered woman' from a working class neighborhood, De Vries' aphoristic writing belies a vengeful reversal of roles in which the