Witch Issy Wood This is the picture McCarthy

This is the picture McCarthy ends up framing: the cartilaginous companions gliding together in a perfect model of how to read

One is tempted to fantasize about its being a number ‘written’ in nature

In the last year of the old millennium

we begin to become old growth ourselves

Witch Issy Wood This is the picture McCarthyWITCH by Rebecca Tams is a raw, strange book of poems that merges feminist exploration with occult expression and ecological language. At turns lyrical, philosophical and obscene, Tamss astonishing debut evokes the sexual prowess of nature as an organism that swallows and consumes. These are poems that unsettle the reader, taking them to dark, magical places where earth and blood, politics and pornography, intermingle; they celebrate poetry as a