Ghost Lives: Cursed Edition by Alex Mazey Layli Long Soldier The poems in this debut

The poems in this debut collection consider death

pyjama sharks and bloody henry starfish all play a part

' – Glen Wilson

sensually embracing everything that interrupts the view

Ghost Lives: Cursed Edition by Alex Mazey Layli Long Soldier The poems in this debutAlex Mazeys playful text art sequence follows Ghost through a hyperreal metropolis beset with neoliberal temptation and eschatological peril. Woven between the visuals are virtuosic lyric poems: poignant, philosophical and irreverent. Mazey gamifies this astute, genre defying collection with an intricate plexus of symbolism, mysticism, numerology, reference and ritual. Haunting and haunted, Ghost Lives paints an eerily recognisable picture of how it