Naturally it is not

Callie Gardner was a poet, critic, and editor of Zarf poetry magazine based in Glasgow. Their critical book Poetry & Barthes was published by Liverpool University Press in 2018. Naturally, It Is Not, first published by the87press in 2018, is their only full-length 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. —Nat Raha, The Poetry Review