Scale by Mina Gorji Spike Milligan We are standing at the

We are standing at the shore

as ‘one of twentieth-century literature’s most concentrated and richly faceted poems

Byrne’s talent has a sticky grace

from the mirror-maze and the masquerade

Scale by Mina Gorji Spike Milligan We are standing at theAt the volcano's edge, in exilic space, at the bottom of the Arctic Sea, or in the acid clouds of Venus, Mina Gorji's Scale traces life at its limits. The poems range across scales of distance, temperature and time, from vast to minute, glacial to volcanic, Pleistocene to present day, constellation to millipede. Adapting to the cold of a new continent opens a chromatic investigation of feeling. Shifting between scales, from insect to ancient star,