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controlled burn is an antipastoral collection with a difference. A. Frances Johnson’s visionary threnodies muse on environmental depletion, colonial dispossession and personal loss. These poems deftly critique enduring theme-park notions of the natural – in spheres poetic and beyond.
controlled burn looks closely and fearlessly at colonial and patriarchal violence, and the environmental devastation being wrought, with a visual and narrative intensity that is as seductive as it is searing. controlled burn is a breathtaking suite of poetic narratives of epic and intimate scope. Rigorous, lithe and canny.
– Andy Jackson
A timely and incisive work that does not shy away from difficult issues, personal or political. At once ironic and serious, these poems vividly convey the traumas and repressions of our age. controlled burn is a compelling read.
– Tracy Ryan
