16pp. Katie Ebbitt, edition of 100
‘Speak like a normal person’, the speaker of Katie Ebbitt’s Air Sign admonishes herself. Thankfully she doesn’t. ‘Hysterical’ sentences unspool around a central proposal – to think as if you don’t have a language. The problem of communication, as cursed, flattened and frozen, is approached and abandoned in a rhythm that feels tide-like, fretting and wired. The page is left somehow both dirty and empty. Uncompromising and stricken, Air Sign is poetry that refuses to make things easy, but recognises the difficulty of living is real, and hopes against hope for something – a new word, writing in a cloud – that isn’t another no show.
16pp. Katie Ebbitt, edition of 100
‘Speak like a normal person’, the speaker of Katie Ebbitt’s Air Sign admonishes herself. Thankfully she doesn’t. ‘Hysterical’ sentences unspool around a central proposal – to think as if you don’t have a language. The problem of communication, as cursed, flattened and frozen, is approached and abandoned in a rhythm that feels tide-like, fretting and wired. The page is left somehow both dirty and empty. Uncompromising and stricken, Air Sign is poetry that refuses to make things easy, but recognises the difficulty of living is real, and hopes against hope for something – a new word, writing in a cloud – that isn’t another no show.