Hopelessness Sue MacIntyre "Fitterman's long poem extracts moments

"Fitterman's long poem extracts moments of outsourced tenderness - simultaneously banal

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Hopelessness Sue MacIntyre "Fitterman's long poem extracts moments"The brilliant Verity Spott has a new book out, called Hopelessness and published by the 87 Press. The work defies categorisation: Verity is a poet, and this book is certainly poetry, but large parts are in prose form and towards the end it even takes on the structure of an absurdist play. There seems to be a loose narrative, and even recurring character voices, so Im tempted to call it a short experimental novel, in the vein of Kenneth Patchens The