The Vitalist Sees the Signs by GB Clarkson Shearsman playful language dance through life’s

playful language dance through life’s more challenging parts

often inextricably bound up with the pain it can cause ("I keep loving you like an old bruise / still tender") but expressed in such rich and startling language

who pioneered feminist activism

Azad Sharma’s poetry has had its application to be risk-averse denied

The Vitalist Sees the Signs by GB Clarkson Shearsman playful language dance through life’sThe Vitalist Sees the Signs is a sly, searing, and spectacularly inventive sequence from GB Clarkson, where each poem casts its eye on the absurd, the divine, and the intimately strange. The Vitalist, an electrified poetic persona, moves through funeral parlours, bogs of misogyny, literary sojourns with George Eliot and John Donne, and surreal maritime metaphysics, collecting grief, insight, and an ever mutating philosophy of survival. With fierce