Reaper in a Headlock by Simon Alderwick Gaia Holmes Paula Meehan’s extraordinary new collection

Paula Meehan’s extraordinary new collection is both a controlled experiment with the challenge of form and

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Reaper in a Headlock by Simon Alderwick Gaia Holmes Paula Meehan’s extraordinary new collectionReaper in a Headlock by Simon Alderwick is a wild, tender, and tonally agile collection that traverses grief, fatherhood, absurdity and cultural exhaustion with restless invention. Framed by elegy and shaped by wit, the poems move between lyrical observation and comedic deflation, evoking the solemn and the ridiculous in equal measure. Alderwick's voice is deeply human"unafraid to mourn, laugh, lash out, or play"and his formal range includes anecdote,