ARGONAUT BOOKS

The poems in Miriam Gamble's third collection journey through scenes and landscapes at once of the world and of the mind. By turns uncanny, dark, poignant and uproarious, What Planet sets individuality of perception and inventiveness of memory against fixed certainties, probing chaos in a post-truth world. Winner of the 2020 Pigott Poetry Prize Reviews Gamble can be very funny as she winds up grandly rhetorical phrases for seemingly inconsequential events… The book's best poems offset that witty, jiving, occasionally arch voice with tender, slower effects...Irish Time...Read More