Point Bolivar Light by Mark Wynne

In these poems, private failings manifest as a collective catastrophe. Survivors struggle to navigate the domestic dramas that have erupted from their own lives, incapable of differentiating between psychic and physical damage. Inspired by eyewitness accounts from the 1900 Galveston Flood, Point Bolivar Light is a collision of private and public catastrophe, an ecological and domestic endgame.

These are taut, tense poems, spoken by people at moments of crisis, the world encroaching on their dimly-lit but evocative rooms.

Declan Ryan