Angels the Size of Houses by Aaron Kent Mark Pajak beauty and the strange geographies

beauty and the strange geographies of happiness

the poems’ voices reckon with the things we can’t get hold of (or get rid of) via a kind of reification

and between poetic forms

John Siddique: ‘Penny Boxall’s poems are somewhat akin to the glass objects in an antique shop or the attic – each poem holds the light in its own way

An unflinching sequence written to her grandmother explores the trauma of losing a father in combat

Angels the Size of Houses by Aaron Kent Mark Pajak beauty and the strange geographies"This poetical collection, Angels the Size of Houses (70 plus sheets of cool and frantic paginated speech) is a buzzing and hyper inventive set of multifarious devices, with exceptional prosodical hazardry and multiple re echoes along its spacious corridors with many doorways for we and us open to its flaring physiological recitatives. The passage construction is familial and domestic in tone row, while also widely outlandish, saltarello style and