This Is How I Fight by Rosie Garland Toby Martinez de las Rivas 'makes the language of his

'makes the language of his poetry an event in itself'

“Richard Lambert has the true poet’s gift for transcending the commonplace…”  John Mole

brief lyric outbursts

The interplay of languages and the shifts of meaning from one to the other feed the musicality of the poems

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This Is How I Fight by Rosie Garland Toby Martinez de las Rivas 'makes the language of hisPublished 19th June 2025. How do we maintain connection in times of disruption? This Is How I Fight by Rosie Garland interrogates gods, beasts and monsters, but not to hammer down simplistic answers. Through a queer perspective, poems shift between human and other, exploring where we might find the courage needed to forge a way through the world, one word in front of the other, proposing kindness as a radical act.