Microburstsmicrobursts is a collection of hybrid, lyric essays about the places between life and death; memoir and poetry; making and letting go. Originally written by Reeder as an intense text based collection of lyric and experimental essays responding to the illnesses and deaths of her parents, it confronts the raw emotions of crisis, grief and creativity. Through collaboration with Thomson, the project expanded to consider how design and visual intervention

your poems

These are probing poems

whose sees ‘the face of sorrow’ in ‘the Sarajevo wind leafing through newspapers / glued to the street by a puddle of blood’

linguistic identity and the lyrical poetic voice

The Last Storytellers

their bodies left to rot

for seemingly subtle shifts that can have huge implications"

Joseph Lennon was born in Newport

Mourid Barghouti has spent many years in exile

combines a feminist outlook with a deep seated love of God

and his father's skeleton clocks

but is that witness all she seems