The Glimmer by Shazea Quraishi Tess Gallagher Benjamin Zephaniah

Benjamin Zephaniah

'your silence will not protect you'

Claire Askew’s electrifying second collection is an investigation of power: the power of oppressive systems and their hold over those within them

These lines understand their power to manipulate: 'this is a poem about my mouth / intended to draw attention / to my mouth'

The Glimmer by Shazea Quraishi Tess Gallagher Benjamin ZephaniahThe Glimmer is a meditation on the time span of life illuminated by many voices. In an artists colony in Mexico, a taxidermist tends animals in their after life, contemplating what remains of us after death. Among the artists she encounters are a painter of miniatures, a war photographer, a light artist, a ghazal singer, and dancers from Tanzteater Wuppertal, as they reflect on the impulse to make work and meaning in a world where value is