OvariumTender, loving and visceral, Ovarium is a pamphlet of poems about a giant ovarian cyst. The poet charts her journey with the cyst, from diagnosis to surgery to recovery, via a landscape of scanner rooms and hospital wards. The poems explore the impact of illness, and the body as a site of disgust and shame but also healing and endurance. Inghams poems are forensic as she looks at the disorientating and sometimes patriarchal language of anatomy and

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their various losses and their movements through time

tracking the male body under pressure from political and historical forces

becoming by turns a motley

In this issue – rich new works that are global in impact and offer fresh

“I think The Layers is important because it sets out to de-normalise loss

Moving through the alphabet

particular style or subject matter

taking into account new fashions in performance poetry

a transvestite who renounces prostitution after the Virgin Mary appears before her

Cry of Greece

The novel’s picture of Jamaica is an uncomfortable one