The Grimace of Eden, Now Jay Bernard Twenty-Four Hours is an unforgettable

Twenty-Four Hours is an unforgettable burst of lyricism – melancholic yet playful

Over the course of a year

From the graceful realism of the opening travelogues to its final long poem

to her explorations of the kinship between plant and animal realms

” a mournful elegy for the victims of the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire in London and stirring rebuke of the structural racism of contemporary UK society

The Grimace of Eden, Now Jay Bernard Twenty-Four Hours is an unforgettableCody Rose Clevidence Animate, emotive, sensory rich and a little vicious, the poems in this collection take as their subject the earth as a planet, small and contaminated and alone in vast space, and the humans and creatures and technology swarming it with life. Formally inventive and playful with language, referencing Tennyson in one breath and the metaverse the next, these poems wander through spacetime with their irreverent theologies, exploring