Review:
Notes from a Swing State: Writing from Wales & America
by Zoë Brigley
From Planet 236
Cath Beard reviews
Notes from a Swing State: Writing from Wales & America by Zoë Brigley
Parthian £8.99
If, as for Raymond Williams, great shifts in time and society are a picking up and setting back down again, then surely we are currently within just such an undefined state, the consequences of which are unknown until the settling and evaluating that comes with the aftermath. The swing state of this new collection of essays by Zoë Brigley is not only Ohio and the Electoral College, but self, home, nationhood and identity. Body, mind and the interactions between them within temporal and physical spaces are navigated throughout a work swinging itself between academic form, personal recollection, metaphor, allegory and memoir.
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