Scale by Mina Gorji Ian McDonald exceptionally felicitous marriage of poetry

exceptionally felicitous marriage of poetry and politics

and ends with a speech towards modernist Malagasy poet Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo

Described as “a writer of great tenderness and lyricism” (Agenda

‘A mural of tiles

notes and essays as part of a lyrical exploration of the conjunction between aesthetics

Scale by Mina Gorji Ian McDonald exceptionally felicitous marriage of poetryAt the volcano's edge, in exilic space, at the bottom of the Arctic Sea, or in the acid clouds of Venus, Mina Gorji's Scale traces life at its limits. The poems range across scales of distance, temperature and time, from vast to minute, glacial to volcanic, Pleistocene to present day, constellation to millipede. Adapting to the cold of a new continent opens a chromatic investigation of feeling. Shifting between scales, from insect to ancient star,