Some Dark God
Catherine Balaq
Some Dark God is very sacred and very profane.
“The shadows in Catherine Balaq’s poetry are richly nuanced and playful. ‘Catch my dark / between your teeth’ invites one speaker. Returning to the body throughout, her quick imagination moves through bleak, unnerving territory with a lightness of touch, reshaping the world, a toad eating a family house, ‘his tongue under the walls’. This is sharply observed, stirring writing.”
John McCullough
“Such a dark, magnificent creation. I devoured the poems. Strident, compelling dispatches from the underworld, meticulously crafted. These poems will get under your skin, go straight for the heart.”
Helen Mort
