Comic Timing by Holly Pester
PBS Wild Card Spring 2021 Keiran Goddard The African overtones draws you

The African overtones draws you into lives that are real and gritty

and its blend of humanity and power make it one of the best first collections of poetry to come out of America in years

non-white body as both vulnerable ('flesh') and weaponised ('flèche')

and from the stimulus of the other’s poem arriving in the e-mail in-tray

In contrast with her previous work written amidst the hubbub of India

Comic Timing by Holly Pester <br> <b> PBS Wild Card Spring 2021</b> Keiran Goddard The African overtones draws youPBS Wild Card Spring 2021 Comic Timing, Holly Pester's extraordinary debut collection of poems, chronicles the experience of living and working as a radical and resistant act. These poems shunt a reader between the political and personal via unique, fragmentary and illusory turns of phrase. Holly tackles marginal bodies, landlords, bog butter, desire, domestic and civic spaces in an unique and illusory voice. She chronicles the prevailing mood of our