White/ Other by Fran Lock
PBS Recommendation Winter 2022 Marian Christie Alison Smith

Alison Smith

religious intolerance

" —Colin Herd

It is also a triumphant paean to beauty

and supplies the title for the central cycle of poems in My Reef My Manifest Array

White/ Other by Fran Lock<br><b>PBS Recommendation Winter 2022</b> Marian Christie Alison SmithWhite Other is a strange hybrid beast part poetry, part polemic, part sectarian graffiti a long lyric essay that grapples with the complexities of writing and living from the position of the absent subject: that is the white working class other within neo liberal culture. White Other is memoir remixed, cut up and spliced with passages of cultural analysis and moments of feral lyric riff to ask what it means to be politically reviled, socially