Do I Look Like an Atmosphere by Zoë Skoulding Julia Rose Lewis In the poetry of CD

In the poetry of  CD Boyland

a young woman wrestles with transitions: from adolescence to adulthood

/ pulling up the side zip

love poems

from whose name it takes its title… “Say”

Do I Look Like an Atmosphere by Zoë Skoulding Julia Rose Lewis In the poetry of CDTaking its title from a line in Hotel du Nord, a 1938 film of doomed romance, this collection brings background into the foreground, whether as birdsong that comes filtered through medieval poetry and digital technologies, or the epiphytic ferns, indicators of temperate rainforests, which are neither rooted nor parasitic but draw nutrients from the mist, dust and decay around them. An epiphytic poetics, in which poems grow in the atmosphere of other