Some Speaking Swirls by John Milbank Christmas 2024 Mackenzie's experimental poems take the

Mackenzie's experimental poems take the reader on an engaging and engaged descent into the sort of purgatory we may never choose to escape from

effortless voice

At a time when the lyric is so much in need

himself politically conflicted

Some Speaking Swirls by John Milbank Christmas 2024 Mackenzie's experimental poems take the'The intersection of theology and poetry is a charged zone of encounter and, if I may say it, discipline. Yet theres a generosity and a lightness to Milbanks verse: a concinnity both with, and within the now, the lyric moment of generous apprehension, which aligns these taut lyrics with the sensibility of Traherne. Ripeness rustles, but it is brightness that reigns here, among alien and yet familiar creatures, a jackdaw, an escaped jaguar in a wood, a