Beast by Irene Solà Peepal Tree the double take

the double take

and Mohamed Saleh Baouiya

featuring the Bryant & May Matchgirls

A powerful underlying current of emotion also drives these poems and is contained and restrained by the more austere formal qualities

Beast by Irene Solà Peepal Tree the double takeBeast is the first collection in English from award winning Catalan poet Irene Sol, a darkly imaged, startling and lyrically precise exploration of gender, identity, sexuality and multiple forms of desire. Beast enters incisively, like claws. It arrives with gleaming fur and stinking. Its a creature that spills its guts and impels the same from otherspeoples, animals, limbs, foodstuffs, logical thinking, familial and sexual relations. In Irene Sols