The Rosebud Variations by Jaydn DeWald Sarah Wardle I would adapt what Joseph

I would adapt what Joseph Brodsky said some thirty years ago of the great Les Murray [

remarkable verse they wrote when their older sibling tragically took his own life

          it comes when it will in its own time

stack is a book-length poem

Walcott creates an almost surflike cadence

The Rosebud Variations by Jaydn DeWald Sarah Wardle I would adapt what JosephIn this debut collection of poetry and prose, Jaydn DeWald explores the relationships between individuality and community, queerness and the bourgeois nuclear family, genre expectations and a postmodern awareness, even distrust, of literary production. Can the imagination forge intimacy, love? Impact history? Or do imaginers merely exile themselves from the world? In a series of obsessive poetic sequences, the speaker narrators of The Rosebud