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In painting, a vanishing point is where two or more lines of perspective join. This convergence across apparent distance often has the effect of suggesting infinity in the tiniest fleck.
Felicity Plunkett's debut collection Vanishing Point is similarly concerned with the impact of discernible points of difference colliding. Plunkett's imaginative, attentive gaze renders universal subjects particular with detail. From the splitting of the atom to release a large destructive radius of ashen dust to the splintering of birth ('My body broke open like a laugh'), the poems here are often keenly aware how the smallest thing speaks of the largest.
Particularly striking are the poems in the latter half of the collection that concern the fractures and repairs of birth (Delivery, Contractions, The Negative Cutter), the little little beginnings of life bounding against the blanking, compartmentalising universals of medicine.
At other points, there's a detached eroticism married to a real love of language that reveals more and more with each read.
What an unusually, beautifully resolved debut collection this is.
Felicity Plunkett's debut collection Vanishing Point is similarly concerned with the impact of discernible points of difference colliding. Plunkett's imaginative, attentive gaze renders universal subjects particular with detail. From the splitting of the atom to release a large destructive radius of ashen dust to the splintering of birth ('My body broke open like a laugh'), the poems here are often keenly aware how the smallest thing speaks of the largest.
Particularly striking are the poems in the latter half of the collection that concern the fractures and repairs of birth (Delivery, Contractions, The Negative Cutter), the little little beginnings of life bounding against the blanking, compartmentalising universals of medicine.
At other points, there's a detached eroticism married to a real love of language that reveals more and more with each read.
What an unusually, beautifully resolved debut collection this is.
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