Thin Spells by Kristina Diprose visual in the slow-burning second half

in the slow-burning second half of the book

But his style has always been to make much out of little and to find beauty in plain speaking

as striking on the page as he is on the stage

This is an angular book of linguistic inventiveness and substance

Charting his life and experiences growing up in Newport

Thin Spells by Kristina Diprose visual in the slow-burning second halfThin Spells is a startling collection, in which the present is powerfully haunted by the ecological past. The poems are shot through with teeth, fur and feathers: from 'Cat Calling Card', charged with the energy of the hunt, to the snarling heart of 'Monokoke,' to the unsettling transformation of 'On Mother's Day' where the speaker slips 'into otter skin.' The poems consistently blur the unstable line between the animal and human and celebrate