Earsplitting by Aled Turner Rachel McCarthy Cut off from his people

Cut off from his people

Charles Tomlinson

SPECIAL COMMENDATION: Oluwaseun Olayiwola

cope with matters of the heart

Earsplitting by Aled Turner Rachel McCarthy Cut off from his peopleAled Turner's Earsplitting is a visceral, unflinching collection that dissects the jagged intersections of memory, violence, and disquiet with a poet's scalpel. The language is sharp edged, rhythmic, and unsentimental, moving through psychological and physical landscapes of raw intensity. Turner's work lingers in the body whether through the grit of intimacy, the weight of familial fractures, or the ghosts of past decisions. At once lyrical and