Naturally it is not

Callie Gardner is a poet, critic, and editor of Zarf poetry magazine based in Glasgow. Their book Poetry & Barthes appeared from Liverpool University Press in 2018, and Naturally it is not is their first book of poetry.

Naturally, It Is Not is a deeply pleasurable work. It invites the reader to follow the poet to encounters at the peripheries of an undivided rural-urban, between the phantasmatic and concrete, and to attend to ecosystems of linguistic fancy. If our forms of life from the human to the cellular have been shaped, contained and truncated by racial capitalism, this book illuminates senses of being that expand poetrys necessity for the lives we have and will live.