Subverses by Mirko Boncaldo Books The guardian spirit of this

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

The poetry is patterned

/ I gather their leaves

poems which address the impact of the climate emergency

Subverses by Mirko Boncaldo Books The guardian spirit of thisSubverses 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