Now You Can Look by Julia Bird Sarah Westcott Declan Ryan

Declan Ryan

The long-poem turned murder-mystery ‘Quiver’ is represented by a number of poems in the sequence

disturbances - as well as the beauty - involved in self-representation in language

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the routes we follow and the paths we make for ourselves

Now You Can Look by Julia Bird Sarah Westcott Declan RyanLike an oil painting, Now You Can Look is a work built up of layers. The colourful subject of its narrative is a woman who takes one glance at what the early twentieth century has set out for her, and throws in her lot with art instead. On the surface, Julia Bird's poems are beautifully textured, conjuring a life rich with 'whispering pelts' in theatre cloakrooms, a yellow kimono with its hem 'like cut butter from an icebox', and the intricacies of an