Moon Jellyfish Can Barely Swim by Ness Owen Louis De Paor it somehow manages to convey

it somehow manages to convey the fullness of Neruda's poetic arc: reading it is like reading the autobiography of a poetic sensibility (granted

The book appeared in the same year that he published his last two collections of French poetry

hard to parse and hugely powerful to experience

the inexplicable actions of adults and the bullies who despise perceived difference

Aimee Lockwood

Moon Jellyfish Can Barely Swim by Ness Owen Louis De Paor it somehow manages to conveyMoon jellyfish live a life adrift, relying on the current to take them where they need to go. They are the ultimate survivors and one of the most successful organisms of animal life. So how do they thrive in the open ocean when they can barely swim? Rooted in her island home, Ness Owen's second collection explores what it is to subsist with whatever the tides bring in poems that journey from family to politics, womanhood and language. In the ebb and