PINK WAVES

PINK WAVESPoetry. Omnidawn, 2021. Paperback, 90 pages. 6" x 9" From NMB: We love Nakayasus pared back form, which nevertheless makes radical movessuch as a special sequence where lines sprawl across the gutter, forming a two page spread (!!!). Pink Waves builds on a history of American experimental traditions including Language Poetry, Conceptual Art, the Black Arts Movement, and Nakayasus own experimental translation practices. We love its quiet elegy and

Poetry for Corporations marks a vanishing era

The result is a manifesto for a slower

architecture

What cannot be defined is pulled into the body

and publisher from Sydney

poetry too often is burdened by the imperative to have an argument and a set of imagery and meanings that are preconceived and placed within the poem

and absolutely stunning long poem “Murmurs

it makes hearts and minds stronger

each piece is one of a kind

"The teenage girls in Kelly Krumrie's Math Class could well be aspiring saints or geometers

as these suncatchers are handcrafted by artisans

“a drop-kick right up the cerebellum