The Aftershock Review: Issue Three John Wheway And Olivia Sears’s translation will

And Olivia Sears’s translation will make you see stars (as Soffici hits you upside the head) as well as heart-breaking wonders in the streets of Paris

the poet inspects a daffodil adorned with a stubbed-out cigarette and ponders how “the underbrush of the English lyric catches my feet”

but by the poem’s close is brought up short by a profound encounter with God

with each issue edited by a renowned poet

The Aftershock Review: Issue Three John Wheway And Olivia Sears’s translation willA JOLT TO THE MAINSTREAM The Guardian The Aftershock Review returns with a third wave. Britains most talked about poetry rupture. Where Issue One named the damage, and Issue Two mapped the fragments that remain. Issue Three asks, more dangerously: What do we need but a bit of hope? Across thirteen urgent sections, Issue Three moves through grief, witness, family, illness, childhood, desire, silence, place and rescue. In An Anthropology of Grief, the