This book, another [see other two] poetry collection by Kate Garrett, is as punchy as it is liberating in its core philosophical attitudes. The poems here are apocalyptic, not in the fire & brimstone cliché sense but in the original meaning of the word - apocalypses being uncoverings of new or hidden knowledge. Variably these unveilings can be of kinds which may upend, uproot or uplift our entire hitherto lives: old habits forgottenly conquered, old chains burst free from, old ignorant darkness lit by the fires of sight and reality - however things might turn out in the longer term, it makes these heavings no less intimidating or uncertain a thing or time to pass through, and here Kate dances the twisting line between fortuitous or calamitous change with a shrewdness and learnedness that is truly exhilarating. Short as it is, I took a while to read this for that very reason.
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