Artifice by Lavinia Singer Gaspar Orozco Paula Meehan’s extraordinary new collection

Paula Meehan’s extraordinary new collection is both a controlled experiment with the challenge of form and

Featuring short biographies of each poet

whose mouth "holds more wonder than a sky full of stars"

souls falling off things

I don't fear change coming

Artifice by Lavinia Singer Gaspar Orozco Paula Meehan’s extraordinary new collectionArtifice, the debut collection by Lavinia Singer, is an exploration of the art of making. Its poems celebrate the artistry of craftsmanship: how works relate to beauty, and how they might inspire or ensnare. They consider issues of artificiality and authenticity, the man made and the natural. They warn of artfulness, in the sense of cunning or deception. And they wonder at the mystery of art and language, that which resolutely remains unknown or