Volvelle by Rachael Boast Palestine quick-witted and never self pitying

quick-witted and never self pitying

and meaning-making in a topology of rapture

For over half a century

the loss of rural landscapes and the role death can play in these spaces

fatherhood and generational traumas with a secular search for meaning and faith in the lived experience to help make sense of who and what we are

Volvelle by Rachael Boast Palestine quick-witted and never self pityingVolvelle, Rachael Boast's fifth collection, pulls at the thread linking our contemporary anxieties concerning fragmentation and technological acceleration to the need to sustain ancient forms of connection with one another and the planet. Embodying something of this in its elegant, recurring consonants ' conjuring love, revolve, evolve ' is the titular volvelle: a medieval analogue computer made of paper and used to perform an enormous range of