The Martians Regress by J.O. Morgan Irene Koronas ’ – Wislawa Szymborska

’ – Wislawa Szymborska

the risks and the rewards of oblivion

or published in fugitive journals) from over three decades of Harry Gilonis’s doggedly

‘the only stone in which the flaws are prized’

With a wry wit

The Martians Regress by J.O. Morgan Irene Koronas ’ – Wislawa SzymborskaShortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2020 A lone martian returns to Earth. He leaves behind him a hardened survivalist culture, its muddled myths and songs, its continued abuse of the environment that sustains it. During this journey back to the now broken and long abandoned mother planet, the martian begins to consider his own uncertain origins, and his own future. Cut off from his people, the martian's story is that of the individual: his duty at