Fatbergs by Andrea Mbarushimana Adam Kammerling the Anthropocene

the Anthropocene

from the Greek Islands to South East Asia to the Black Sea

but never enough to settle the reader

‘What is wonderful is the unusual way her steadiness as a writer serves as a foil to the mysterious

of Dickinson’s "so cold no fire can warm me" and of Michael Palmer’s comic interrogation

Fatbergs by Andrea Mbarushimana Adam Kammerling the AnthropoceneThere is a visceral, unflinching eye at work in Fatbergs, that begins with the arresting title and continues throughout this collection, which ranges far as it examines human relationships in the complex societies and landscapes they inhabit. Mbarushimanas writes, I choose to see you, and her lens doesnt look away from what a body is in its life span, shapes and functions. Her words circle around the bone, skin and flesh, and this approach anchors the