All the Pretty Lights by Gerry McGrath Mary Jean Chan A politically charged

A politically charged

we understand that within their ‘bones Holodomor / lives on’

this protean work gives shape to a cast of characters both ancient and modern

they unveil startling avenues of thought that tremble with unsettled feeling

All the Pretty Lights by Gerry McGrath Mary Jean Chan A politically chargedAll the Pretty Lights is a revelation, a book of poems which speaks to many worlds while finding a common ground for all. Here Gerry McGrath's poems manage to balance, often on a knife edge, between the typical and the weird, the domestic and the otherworldly, the ordinary and the metaphysical. All the Pretty Lights does what the best poetry is supposed to do: it enlarges the reader's universe, and helps us find answers to the eternal mysteries of