Greg Bem reviews Stuart Kinmond and Phil Hall's Alternative Girders: a collaboration / 2014 - 2017 (2018)

Our pal Greg Bem was good enough to provide the first review for Stuart Kinmond and Phil Hall's Alternative Girders: a collaboration / 2014 - 2017 (2018) at Goodreads. Thanks so much! You can see the original review here.

Reading through this book is like reading through each breath of the poets. Their language spurts out like girders, like structural supports, the innards of the book as a whole. There is a visual quality to the poem that is certified by the vispo works splicing the more conventional poems every few pages. The language is quite astute and phantasmagorical, with such intimacies that pretension need not be suspected.