Know Thy Audience by Nadia de Vries Charles Bennett The poems – by writers

The poems – by writers from many parts of the world – have emotional power

Edward Ragg's debut collection

‘Naffis-Sahely’s poems usher the reader in to a world of reversals and risk

pathos and humour

whilst protest actions entwine themselves around judicial statements

Know Thy Audience by Nadia de Vries Charles Bennett The poems – by writersKnow Thy Audience, Nadia de Vries's third poetry collection, disavows the platitude from which it takes its name and makes the reader complicit in both her aggression and her submission, sparked by a history of domestic abuse that escapes all euphemism and metaphor but not poetry altogether. Speaking or rather, singing as a 'battered woman' from a working class neighborhood, De Vries' aphoristic writing belies a vengeful reversal of roles in which the