Bluff by Danez Smith
Poetry Book Society Recommendation Autumn 2024 Siriol Troup A mix of dreamy fantasy

A mix of dreamy fantasy and scientific fact

— Luke Kennard

the eternal battle between Eros and Thanatos… It’s a tribute to Landau’s prodigious poetic gifts that she can hold the paradox in her hands so well

This sets her apart

from the spaces in between

Bluff by Danez Smith<br><b>Poetry Book Society Recommendation Autumn 2024</b> Siriol Troup A mix of dreamy fantasyWritten during the time the world came to a halt due to the COVID 19 pandemic, and Minneapolis became the epicentre of protest following the murder of George Floyd, Bluff is Danez Smiths powerful reckoning with their responsibility as a poet and with their hometown. Smith brings a startling urgency to these poems, their questions demanding a new language, new textual shapes and a deep self scrutiny. Ars poetica gives way to 'ars america'. A