Notes on Swimming by Arthur Lawson Bohdan Piasecki failing that

failing that

a gust of wind

the life and nature of the mind have been recurring subjects in James Aitchison’s poetry

the Book of Jonah occupies a unique and awkward space in scripture

conflicting institutional agendas

Notes on Swimming by Arthur Lawson Bohdan Piasecki failing thatNotes on Swimming, Arthur Lawson's debut pamphlet, draws the queer self into a sustained nautical idiom in which bodies dissolve into sand, sink like whales, or wake feathered as swans. Across these poems, domestic interiors become submarines and kettles boil into oceanic dioramas, the marine world functioning less as setting than as the available vocabulary for dissociation, suppression and grief. Lawson moves between intimate address and oblique