QuickFire, Slow Burning

Shortlisted for the Saltire Society Poetry Book of the Year 2024 Longlisted for The Laurel Prize 2024 Janette Ayachi’s second collection moves away from the personal and delves into the universal with poems often taking flight from the page to parachute into performance. Her hypnotic voice lifts from a keen observing stance to one that probes the chemical reactions in nature, and especially in the body. Fire is seen as an element; as something environmental, a natural disaster. But Ayachi also p