Beast by Irene Solà Peepal Tree His tones range from the

His tones range from the whimsical—“the dogs of Minneapolis

the double take

Interspersed with a sequence on the deteriorating health of her father

Nicholas Hughes

A powerful underlying current of emotion also drives these poems and is contained and restrained by the more austere formal qualities

Beast by Irene Solà Peepal Tree His tones range from theBeast is the first collection in English from award winning Catalan poet Irene Sol, a darkly imaged, startling and lyrically precise exploration of gender, identity, sexuality and multiple forms of desire. Beast enters incisively, like claws. It arrives with gleaming fur and stinking. Its a creature that spills its guts and impels the same from otherspeoples, animals, limbs, foodstuffs, logical thinking, familial and sexual relations. In Irene Sols