Conscious Tongues by Elenia Graf Carol Ann Duffy From Dylan Thomas’s eighteen straight

From Dylan Thomas’s eighteen straight whiskies to Sylvia Plath’s desperate suicide in the gas oven of her Primrose Hill kitchen

both of a single life and the wider human condition

the trauma of anonymity

the long poem “La Maye” which he has been writing for decades

These poems seek the calm at the center of the storm

Conscious Tongues by Elenia Graf Carol Ann Duffy From Dylan Thomas’s eighteen straightElenia Graf's Conscious Tongues is a visceral, formally inventive collection that undertakes an autopsic exploration of hunger and the body parts it inhabits. Moving from feet to scalp, these poems dissect dykehood, trauma, and the ouroboros of emptiness and consumption with scalpel sharp intimacy. Graf charts a queer neurodivergent poetics of survival and desire, refusing linear healing or palatable catharsis. Instead, the collection dwells in