Reviews

Alvarez is able to deconstruct and interrogate language and contextual meanings at a highly granular level, and craft a series of compelling re-interpretations.

The brevity of each poem is perhaps a testament to Alvarez’s knack for delving straight to the core of a moment, whether domestic or public.

In a way that is unique to her, Alvarez’s engagement with […] idiomatic language creates a sequence of works that illuminate the beautiful — and at times disquieting — rhythms of living in the Philippines, and far beyond.

Ivy Alvarez [eschews] inflections of identity politics through strategies of fracture, discontinuity and obliquity…

It doesn’t get much more avant-garde than this… Wow!