Shoals of Starlings

These minimalist poems of Andrew Martin's debut collection offer a muscular musicality, infused with deep vulnerability. In this edition, the poetry is accompanied by the author's own artwork. The luminous language and fractal imagery both share the same creation processes and combine to explore themes of repetition, shape-shifting, and resurfacing, like a murmuration of starlings. There is much darkness in the vivid imagery of these elemental bird-themed poems, but ever-present is a whispered undertow of light.