Tied to the Wind by Afric McGlinchey Ilya Kaminsky Kinloch’s bestiary of forgotten voices

Kinloch’s bestiary of forgotten voices spans apocalypse and salvage

Giddy joy was followed by disillusion

emerging from the instant of their writing

a bar where a merchant mariner has a story he must tell

of Dickinson’s "so cold no fire can warm me" and of Michael Palmer’s comic interrogation

Tied to the Wind by Afric McGlinchey Ilya Kaminsky Kinloch’s bestiary of forgotten voicesTied to the Wind portrays a young girls attempts to tether herself to a life that keeps becoming unfixed, each time her family moves from Ireland to Southern Africa and back again. Her nomadic childhood triggers a sense of destabilisation, exacerbated by alcoholism, racism, war and the conflicts of complicit colonial privilege. Interwoven into the narrative are the puzzle pieces of a fateful decision to undertake a skydive, despite her fear of