These Nights at Home by Alex Reed Suzannah Evans In Playing the Octopus

In Playing the Octopus

and everyday miracles on the other

At home in a number of locales (Brooklyn

With contributions that span Vispo to Surrealism

but where the scale is always the human body

These Nights at Home by Alex Reed Suzannah Evans In Playing the OctopusThese nights at home, which follows on from Alex Reeds earlier V. Press pamphlet A Career in Accompaniment, is very personal, and yet very familiar. This longer pamphlet voices the loneliness and isolation that follow bereavement, and the predicament of trying to begin anew. Moments of tenderness, flashback, longing and love flicker through the mind and heart as the months pass. The poems are accompanied by Keren Bannings striking series of