Middle Child by Annie Muir Scott Tyrrell containing one poem from every

containing one poem from every title published by Smokestack since 2004

Sometimes we arrive right on time to catch the euphoria

To the crystalline abstractions that Rushmer inherits from French poetry is added Taoist-inspired spirituality and the influence of Chinese and Japanese calligraphy in an amalgam of great beauty

Let us (or the invocation of smoke) by Shehzar Doja is a mysterious and ethereal pamphlet

with wry humour

Middle Child by Annie Muir Scott Tyrrell containing one poem from everyMiddle Child by Annie Muir is a book of sharp, funny, quietly brutal recognitions, where the everyday turns uncanny and the self keeps slipping between roles, versions, and borrowed scripts. Through poems that riff on Frankenstein, pop culture, pub lore, found images and borrowed forms, Muir writes the middle child's sensibility as a kind of heightened surveillance, noticing how bodies are appraised, threatened, desired, marketed, and made to perform.