Grief’s AlphabetGriefs Alphabet by Carrie Etter is a shattering elegy for the poets mother, opening a pathway through grief in spite of the impossible task of expressing such a loss. Beginning both chronologically and alphabetically, the collection moves from early life with the narrators adoption, through to the mothers unexpected death and the banal yet painful tasks which follow, such as sorting clothes and arranging the funeral. The final section deals with life

Tony Black

and as such was present and participating throughout the four days

but denotes equally

the banality of City work

intellectual

and precise description

author of City of Quartz and Planet of the Slums Contributing authorsDele Adeyemo

Charles Olson’s The Maximus Poems

Meanwhile the plague rages in Europe…

the only Byzantine empress who sat on the throne in her own right

or is he forever lost to the void

Had she been recaptured