The Channel by Jana Prikryl Penguin Putnam ’ – Stephen Knight

’ – Stephen Knight

of individual sensibility and the chronicling of quotidian collective drama

Abandoned Gardens is a powerful and essential distillation from this poet’s three collections

for invisible dawns' housed in a 'coffin rolled across a minefield'

but also the risks of crossing strangers’ thresholds or in encountering the violent machismo and hypermasculine expectations of the society you grow up in

The Channel by Jana Prikryl Penguin Putnam ’ – Stephen KnightJana Prikryl's poems contend with displacement and domestic upheaval in a style both fluid and inexorable. The Channel, the poet's fourth collection and her UK debut, is in deep conversation with King Lear, listening for Cordelia as a person banished from home, whose nearest relations know love only as a form of control. The play depends on her silence, but outside of the play her voice may make us audible to ourselves. The book thinks, brilliantly