“Cipher” by Ivy Alvarez asks the question: Would you trade your memories for cash?
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Hilaire reads Disturbance
“Alvarez gets behind the headlines, giving voice to the many people affected by such an incident. Though the surface of many of the poems is factual – lists, interviews, statements – the cumulative effect is very powerful.” —Hilaire
Read the rest of Hilaire’s blogpost.
Hilaire mentions Disturbance
Stunned. Just read, in one sitting, Disturbance, by @IvyAlvarez @SerenBooks Powerful, unflinching, disturbing. #poetry
— Hilaire (@Xilaire) February 12, 2014
Hilaire on Twitter: “Stunned. Just read, in one sitting, Disturbance, by @IvyAlvarez @SerenBooks Powerful, unflinching, disturbing. #poetry”
Bethany Pope mentions Disturbance
Bethany Pope: “Sitting in a bus terminal (my God these are appropriately named – all life seems to stop.) reading Ivy Alvarez‘s wonderful verse-novel ‘Disturbance’ (which is also about a terminus, of the original kind). This book cuts straight to the gristle, ‘Her dress, for instance, did not shield her / from the buckshot aimed at her front and back. / We do what we can.’ Pick this book up the next time you need something wonderful…”
Disturbance as a cake
Pictures of Disturbance as a cake, from its book launch (part of First Thursdays, a poetry and fiction reading series organised by Seren Books).
