Nostoc by Daragh Breen Robert Macfarlane in a language that is

in a language that is as vital and joyous as we are able to craft it in the Caribbean

and spectacular terrain

pulling no punches

‘a tree-shaped brightness dances’

but they dwell only briefly in the familiar actual

Nostoc by Daragh Breen Robert Macfarlane in a language that isLike the eponymous fungus that appears to be regurgitated by the Earth herself after rain, fragments of invented folklore and mongrel histories have stained through from Breens subconscious and come to bloom as a trio of sequences that deal, in turn, with mans tampering with Natures DNA through the selective breeding of dogs, societal fears of the witch figure, and the hopelessness of augury in the face of the inevitability of death. There are also