Dame Julie Andrews’ Botched Vocal Cord Surgery and Other Poems Latifa Baqa the land and the culture

the land and the culture

and a persistent hallucination in the form of a gnome

McCabe leaves the safety of streetlights behind and walks in the footsteps of William Morris and W

Henry James

instance when I start with the name of a colour rather than a noun

Dame Julie Andrews’ Botched Vocal Cord Surgery and Other Poems Latifa Baqa the land and the cultureIn the title poem of Katherine Meehans debut collection, Dame Julie Andrews Botched Vocal Cord Surgery and Other Poems, the poet presents an examination of losses, failures, and griefs, all of them tempered by an unusual humour. Grounded in the particularities of location, these poems wander between urban and rural spaces, from Los Angeles and Appalachia to the English home counties. Glass eels, Grendels mother and a host of nameless losers are given