In the Shadow of the Yew by John Barnie Marosa di Giorgio in which the familiar Western

in which the familiar Western canons of art

Yrsa gently takes readers by the hand

remove exhaustion from groans

A biological cartography of the effects of trauma and silence

to be human

In the Shadow of the Yew by John Barnie Marosa di Giorgio in which the familiar WesternIn a tight sequence of 33 poems, In the Shadow of the Yew, John Barnie leads us through the cemetery of hopes (Conrad). A layered monologue in a distinctive voice that is incisive and deeply questioning, Barnie asks whether the suffering of humanity and the suffering we inflict renders our species a curse. better than both is the one who has never been born, who has not seen the evil that is done under the sun. says the writer of Ecclesiastes, and