Fragile July by Oscar Nearly scottish Peter Sirr

Peter Sirr

Carpenter is an expansive

Formally deft and classically inspired

In going that far down into the dark it somehow flies

where the poet meets his Beatrice

Fragile July by Oscar Nearly scottish Peter SirrFragile July by Oscar Nearly is a mesmeric, slow burn excavation of memory, trauma, and domestic unreality, rendered through the porous, looping rhythms of prose poetry. Framed as a forensic reconstruction of a childhood summer, the text interweaves photographic description, childhood games, fragmentary scenes, and the ominous repetition of family motifs, digging, watching, swinging, with a precise, dissociative calm. Nearly's style is hallucinatory