Hopelessness Eileen Myles its personages

its personages

speaking pictures who remain silent and a focus on an adjacent imaginal world

some ekphrastic evening

often vulnerable

Sutherland’s long poem from 2017

Hopelessness Eileen Myles its personagesVerity Spott "The brilliant Verity Spott has a new book out, called Hopelessness and published by the 87 Press. The work defies categorisation: Verity is a poet, and this book is certainly poetry, but large parts are in prose form and towards the end it even takes on the structure of an absurdist play. There seems to be a loose narrative, and even recurring character voices, so Im tempted to call it a short experimental novel, in the vein of Kenneth