Powerful love between a grandmother and a granddaughter animates the voices in this poignant series of inner monologues set against the backdrop of global climate crisis and the COVID pandemic. Margaret Gibson's Draw Me without Boundaries lays bare the integrity and depth of inquiry it takes to make life and death choices in a broken world. This luminous book-innovative, suspenseful, deeply moving-reflects in conjoined poetry and prose the profound issues of our time.
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Around my body there is light the colour / of daybreak on a day it will rain / The light is also the colour of the roses she grew in / her summer garden, roses / she put into vases / along a narrow strip of mirror on a polished table (LENA)
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(@lsupress, 31 July 2024, e-galley, 126 pages, ARC from the publisher via @edelweiss_squad)
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This is a new poet for me. I really enjoyed Draw Me without Boundaries. I enjoyed all of the poems in this collection. Many of the poems didn't have titles which it took a while for me to get used to. I'm a stickler for poems to have proper titles. The poems themselves were so well written and so engaging they didn't need titles. The pandemic serves as the backdrop for these poems about love, loss and the bounds of family. The poems resonate with me and I felt connected to every line. I'd recommend this collection.
