Comic Timing by Holly Pester
PBS Wild Card Spring 2021 The Emma Press Lawrence Giffin

Lawrence Giffin

carefully curated by editors Anne Caldwell and Oz Hardwick

Taken together they affirm her belief that 'poetry is the music of being human'

ruthlessly sharp

Like the eponymous fungus that appears to be regurgitated by the Earth herself after rain

Comic Timing by Holly Pester <br> <b> PBS Wild Card Spring 2021</b> The Emma Press Lawrence GiffinPBS Wild Card Spring 2021 Comic Timing, Holly Pester's extraordinary debut collection of poems, chronicles the experience of living and working as a radical and resistant act. These poems shunt a reader between the political and personal via unique, fragmentary and illusory turns of phrase. Holly tackles marginal bodies, landlords, bog butter, desire, domestic and civic spaces in an unique and illusory voice. She chronicles the prevailing mood of our