Excerpted from the first full-length review of A TRIP TO THE ZZOO (Collusion Books, 2020) by Jeremy Colangelo — published in issue 14 of The /temz/ Review: read the full review here
New review in The /tƐmz/ Review 14
New review of A TRIP TO THE ZZOO
✨Another small review of A TRIP TO THE ZZOO (Collusion Books, 2020), this time by Michael Russell @michael.russell.poet — thnx for the kind words about our latest chapbook 😺
COLLUSION Season 1 Launch Party — youtube link
🚀 MA|DE debuted two video poems yesterday!
— wait, did you miss the COLLUSION Season 1 Launch Party when it went live? No worries, it’s still online, watch it today! The whole event (which celebrates the release of 3 different collaborative chapbooks, ours, plus ones featuring @conyerclayton + @manahilbanduk and Daniela Elza + Arlene Ang) clocks in at under 30min, and can be viewed in its entirety on the Collusion Books YOUTUBE Channel …
First review of A TRIP TO THE ZZOO
✨Thnx to Hollay Ghadery @hollayghadery for being the first person to review our Collusion Books chapbook A TRIP TO THE ZZOO! Here’s our favourite part of this mini-review
A TRIP TO THE ZZOO is now available
✨One of almost two dozen collaborative poems appearing in our largest chapbook to date, A TRIP TO THE ZZOO (2020, Collusion Books) — available now
• full-colour variant cover (wolf or deer designs)
• limited edition of 100 numbered copies
A collection of collaborative poems that in some manner mention, reference or explore animal life; the title’s variant spelling is a deliberate gesture, signalling to the reader that the poems only share a partial resemblance to the spectacle of animal exhibition at a traditional zoo. These poems often venture into the territory of ecopoetics, with environmentally-conscious through-lines being a frequent presence in the work, either implicitly or explicitly.