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Brenda Shaughnessy & Amy Key: Liquid Flesh

London Review Bookshop Podcast

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Moving Far Away

This is a brand new one from a new collection that's coming out in spring. It's called Tanya. And that's a book that's about my first college roommate whose name is Tanya. Haven't seen you in years, but I like a rough edge. Island broken off a big bully. I'll use up all my firewood on you. Sorcery, what turned into me? An iron foot, a leg of log, a wish for symmetry. My fire handed down to me by cauldron witches in their longish unauthorized youth. Broken crest rising, rinsed of desire, full of pull and push.

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