End Ceremonies by Stuart McPherson Anne Michaels “In Advice to a Young

“In Advice to a Young Poet Max sets out to answer a question posed by the young man’s father: ‘What is a lyrical line

the seemingly reliable constant of the outside world is in turn transformed by the global pandemic

which is when he began writing poetry

From the recipe for an ‘emergency cocktail’ in the event of being stranded inland she explores ‘a closer understanding of what it means / to be a woman’

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End Ceremonies by Stuart McPherson Anne Michaels “In Advice to a YoungEnd Ceremonies by Stuart McPherson is at times tender, at times wounded, the poems exploding outwards into a galaxy of miraculous imagery and an infinitude of Octopus eyes". The themes are often dark, fighting bare fisted with the dualities found within self discovery and identity, but written in such compelling, haunted, and hypnotic tones, that the work becomes irresistible. These are poems of closure and rebirth, where the "shapes of ghosts demand