Ortileus's Sea Monsters by Stephanie Green Penned in the Margins with many near-misses

with many near-misses

for many English readers

flight and refuge but above all they are plain-spoken

In this tensile and delicately stranded poetry of survival

and finding a new home in Wales

Ortileus's Sea Monsters by Stephanie Green Penned in the Margins with many near-missesOrtelius' Sea Monsters by Stephanie Green is the winner of the Alastair Reid pamphlet prize, 2023 (Wigtown Festival). The poems explore a wide range of trauma inspired by various mythological sea monsters depicted on Ortelius' 1590 map of Iceland and surrounding seas. Ortelius Sea Monsters is outstanding I relished each encounter This is a work which is a triumph both for the writers imagination and their wide and surprising range of poetic skills.