Subverses by Mirko Boncaldo Books The poetry is patterned

The poetry is patterned

The guardian spirit of this book is a mahogany sculpture called Eve

and to millions across our TV screens and the airwaves of BBC Radio

in the revenant voice of the mother who inserts herself into the poet’s memory and demands in her “broad Yorkshire vowels […] ‘Why is your dad getting all the attention

Intrusive thoughts

Subverses by Mirko Boncaldo Books The poetry is patternedSubverses by Mirko Boncaldo is a collection that treats the poem as a site of refusal, resisting authorial entitlement and inviting interpretation as a shared, destabilising game. From its opening gestures, the work positions itself against paternalism and poetic gatekeeping, seeking a greatest possible openness where subjectivity slides away from the author even at its most intimate. Formally, these poems move in compressed lyric bursts and quick