The Aftershock Review: Issue Three John Wheway friend or lover

friend or lover

with each issue edited by a renowned poet

deals with difficult subjects but with such spirit and seeming insouciance that the reader

And Olivia Sears’s translation will make you see stars (as Soffici hits you upside the head) as well as heart-breaking wonders in the streets of Paris

even the stones

The Aftershock Review: Issue Three John Wheway friend or loverA JOLT TO THE MAINSTREAM The Guardian The Aftershock Review returns with a third wave. Britains most talked about poetry rupture. Where Issue One named the damage, and Issue Two mapped the fragments that remain. Issue Three asks, more dangerously: What do we need but a bit of hope? Across thirteen urgent sections, Issue Three moves through grief, witness, family, illness, childhood, desire, silence, place and rescue. In An Anthropology of Grief, the