The book's vivid portrait of a marriage, quickened by sickness and the threat of separation, presents love as a play of shadow and light. 'In The Ink Cloud Reader, Kit Fan's moving, wise and fluid poems grapple with the forces 'converting loss to some form / of chaos'. In this impressive third collection, Kit Fan's restless, explorative, compositional impulse is evident from first to last The poems in this collection - personal, political, edgy, sometimes provocative - have a unifying voice both intriguing and wholly original.' 'The compressed narratives in The Ink Cloud Reader demonstrate both lyric intensity and a remarkable dramatic reach. This collection holds at its core the tension of what to say and how to say it, gloriously in celebration of ambivalence, and questioning.' 'Kit Fan's poems are a kind of lyric vortex: imagistic fictions that wrap themselves around a hard, lyrical, personal centre, something like the complexity of a seed.
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