Middle Child by Annie Muir Scott Tyrrell To the crystalline abstractions that

To the crystalline abstractions that Rushmer inherits from French poetry is added Taoist-inspired spirituality and the influence of Chinese and Japanese calligraphy in an amalgam of great beauty

Sometimes we arrive right on time to catch the euphoria

Alfie Piper has six weeks of summer - and nothing left to lose

but perhaps the most interesting thing about his work is the use to which he puts features widely disseminated in contemporary poetry: randomness

whether in the mind or the natural world

Middle Child by Annie Muir Scott Tyrrell To the crystalline abstractions thatMiddle Child by Annie Muir is a book of sharp, funny, quietly brutal recognitions, where the everyday turns uncanny and the self keeps slipping between roles, versions, and borrowed scripts. Through poems that riff on Frankenstein, pop culture, pub lore, found images and borrowed forms, Muir writes the middle child's sensibility as a kind of heightened surveillance, noticing how bodies are appraised, threatened, desired, marketed, and made to perform.