The Grimace of Eden, Now Jay Bernard From the graceful realism of

From the graceful realism of the opening travelogues to its final long poem

a book is an intimacy

als er eendenkuikens voor het eerst

previously the union headquarters for a coal board

The Grimace of Eden, Now Jay Bernard From the graceful realism ofCody Rose Clevidence Animate, emotive, sensory rich and a little vicious, the poems in this collection take as their subject the earth as a planet, small and contaminated and alone in vast space, and the humans and creatures and technology swarming it with life. Formally inventive and playful with language, referencing Tennyson in one breath and the metaverse the next, these poems wander through spacetime with their irreverent theologies, exploring