Microbursts Martin Bennett inaugurating the first Poetry International

inaugurating the first Poetry International

Kay Syrad on Writing Your Self

regimes plotted against their citizenry and ordinary people resorted to crime and deceit in order to survive

In a nameless suburb in an equally nameless country

Microbursts Martin Bennett inaugurating the first Poetry Internationalmicrobursts is a collection of hybrid, lyric essays about the places between life and death; memoir and poetry; making and letting go. Originally written by Reeder as an intense text based collection of lyric and experimental essays responding to the illnesses and deaths of her parents, it confronts the raw emotions of crisis, grief and creativity. Through collaboration with Thomson, the project expanded to consider how design and visual intervention