Naked Oyster Ester Naomi Perquin But when Arachne was born

But when Arachne was born sick

Alice Notley has consistently peopled her poetry with the voices of those around her: kids

and narrative

the French visual artist Gisèle Celan-Lestrange

Naked Oyster Ester Naomi Perquin But when Arachne was bornPoppy Cockburn Naked Oyster, the debut collection by Poppy Cockburn author of pamphlets such as Liquid Crystal Lovesick Demon and feed notes gathers 100 odd of her pithiest, prettiest and most coruscating poems. A specialist of the aphorism, the two to four liner in her hands is turned like a joke, a curse, a mirror, a glowstick, a dart; precision and point hasnt achieved this density per inch since the Roman eprigrammists of the 2nd Century. Sly,