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Grug Muse’s second poetry collection exists in the ‘bargaining space between softness and stability'; in the bodies of water that represent both escapism and threat. Geological layers and stratum, in the reading, come to reveal layers of selfhood, as the collection treads that fine line between pleasure and pain, the sensuous and the raw.
Grug Muse
"From the very first page, I fell in love with this book, and I had to read it again, and again and again [...] it is, on the one hand, traditional — mythological, historical, evoking the fairytales of our culture — and yet this is all conveyed from within a distinctly modern vision [...] it is personal, it is timely and utterly fresh."
Gwion Hallam