QuickFire, Slow Burning by Janette Ayachi Abigail Parry photographers

photographers

as striking on the page as he is on the stage

refined by the disciplines of translation and co-translation

is also a major poet of the generation of Ashbery

following her debut

QuickFire, Slow Burning by Janette Ayachi Abigail Parry photographersJanette Ayachis second collection moves away from the personal and delves into the universal with poems often taking flight from the page to parachute into performance. Her hypnotic voice lifts from a keen observing stance to one that probes the chemical reactions in nature, and especially in the body. Fire is seen as an element; as something environmental, a natural disaster. But Ayachi also plays with fire as a fuel in relationships; a heat felt and