Comic Timing by Holly Pester
PBS Wild Card Spring 2021 Keiran Goddard non-white body as both vulnerable

non-white body as both vulnerable ('flesh') and weaponised ('flèche')

the selected results provide a basis for a found truth that is moving onwards and onwards

an unworldly interior that is ‘ruthless and summoned’

The African overtones draws you into lives that are real and gritty

Patricia Smith reinvents the role of witness with an incendiary fusion of forms

Comic Timing by Holly Pester <br> <b> PBS Wild Card Spring 2021</b> Keiran Goddard non-white body as both vulnerablePBS Wild Card Spring 2021 Comic Timing, Holly Pester's extraordinary debut collection of poems, chronicles the experience of living and working as a radical and resistant act. These poems shunt a reader between the political and personal via unique, fragmentary and illusory turns of phrase. Holly tackles marginal bodies, landlords, bog butter, desire, domestic and civic spaces in an unique and illusory voice. She chronicles the prevailing mood of our