Know Thy Audience by Nadia de Vries Charles Bennett pathos and humour

pathos and humour

perfect for any animal-loving child to read in the day or at bedtime

and exacting study of death and grieving

‘Naffis-Sahely’s poems usher the reader in to a world of reversals and risk

Know Thy Audience by Nadia de Vries Charles Bennett pathos and humourKnow Thy Audience, Nadia de Vries's third poetry collection, disavows the platitude from which it takes its name and makes the reader complicit in both her aggression and her submission, sparked by a history of domestic abuse that escapes all euphemism and metaphor but not poetry altogether. Speaking or rather, singing as a 'battered woman' from a working class neighborhood, De Vries' aphoristic writing belies a vengeful reversal of roles in which the