In Search of Equilibrium Ahmad Zein

In Search of Equilibrium Ahmad ZeinTheresa Lolas debut poetry collection In Search of Equilibrium is an extraordinary and exacting study of death and grieving. Where the algorithms of the body and the memory fail, Lola finds the words that will piece together the binary code of family and restart the recovery program. In doing so, these unflinching poems work towards the hard wired truths of life itself finding hope in survival, lines of rescue in faith, a stubborn equilibrium in the

cruelly rejected by her father for refusing to bind her feet

Not a word is wasted

when the Evin loudspeakers

from "Insect Hotel" Bug and bee and ladybird

Dogs do sing

his patient appears to behave with impeccable rationality

retellings of myth and reclamations of history

To take my place among our soldier-troglodytes

She lives in Northumberland

but only in order to study

Saleem Barakat

Julia Webb’s Bird Sisters is a surreal journey through sisterhood and the world of the family via the natural world