unflinching look at the world we live in
Çapan's poetry manages to sound ancient and traditional while being firmly rooted in today's world
as ‘one of twentieth-century literature’s most concentrated and richly faceted poems
affectionate and gently satirical
Scale by Mina Gorji Spike Milligan unflinching look at the worldAt the volcano's edge, in exilic space, at the bottom of the Arctic Sea, or in the acid clouds of Venus, Mina Gorji's Scale traces life at its limits. The poems range across scales of distance, temperature and time, from vast to minute, glacial to volcanic, Pleistocene to present day, constellation to millipede. Adapting to the cold of a new continent opens a chromatic investigation of feeling. Shifting between scales, from insect to ancient star,