Middle Child by Annie Muir Scott Tyrrell avoiding the chair where they

avoiding the chair where they fucked

containing one poem from every title published by Smokestack since 2004

searching for the freedom and the words to reclaim human and earthly connections

whether in the mind or the natural world

Let us (or the invocation of smoke) by Shehzar Doja is a mysterious and ethereal pamphlet

Middle Child by Annie Muir Scott Tyrrell avoiding the chair where theyMiddle Child by Annie Muir is a book of sharp, funny, quietly brutal recognitions, where the everyday turns uncanny and the self keeps slipping between roles, versions, and borrowed scripts. Through poems that riff on Frankenstein, pop culture, pub lore, found images and borrowed forms, Muir writes the middle child's sensibility as a kind of heightened surveillance, noticing how bodies are appraised, threatened, desired, marketed, and made to perform.