The Weather in NormalIn her collection The Weather in Normal, Carrie Etter laments the loss of her hometown of Normal, Illinois through the death of her parents, the sale of the family home, and the effects of climate change on Illinois landscape and lives. The authors restlessly inventive use of multiple tones, shifting line lengths, and fresh turns of phrase are as much a means of conveying complex and paradoxical emotions as they are a determined formal strategy to

The stories are told in a number of voices: middle-aged way leave officer Frank

Paul Durcan and Rita Ann Higgins before him

And then there is Seduce’s old lover

It is also a book about the midnight world of insomniacs

as land muscles unknot and lengthen

Often a poem will initially seem to be about a landscape or an animal – say

" – Luke Kennard

His short crime fiction

keened a note that held me closer

has lived in Boston

Lamming has written one of the half dozen most important Caribbean novels of all time

or grand might spur a poem