Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky
PBS Summer Choice 2019 Helen Ivory as well as a radical

as well as a radical queer critique of the normative

and human-animal relations

But a great deal of the power of Ní Ghríofa’s work comes from the way her personal history links her to the wider world – to the imaginative encounters that prompt so many of the poems

Sandeep Parmar

Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky <br><b>PBS Summer Choice 2019</b> Helen Ivory as well as a radicalDeaf Republic opens in a time of political unrest in an occupied territory. It is uncertain where we are or when, in what country or during what conflict, but we come to recognise that these events are also happening here, right now. This astonishing parable in poems unfolds episodically like a play, its powerful narrative provoked by a tragic opening scene: when soldiers breaking up a protest kill a deaf boy, the gunshot becomes the last thing the