Ill Nature by John McKeown #Chileanpoetry attends to queer

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Every woman even or especially those who are illiterate knows and has memorized a few important stories – to share [

Poetry Book Society Recommendation Translation Winter 2005

vision is partial and identity nothing but fluid

Ill Nature by John McKeown #Chileanpoetry attends to queerThe title of John McKeowns new collection of poems involves a punning conflation of sardonic ill humour and our environmentally ill planet. The spare elegance of his previous work is very much in evidence here, with a grimmer, bracingly bleaker note, in work which strips away the poetically comforting in favour of starker, purer vignettes of the urbanized nature around us and the inescapable allure of the opposite sex. Theres quiet passion here, naked