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From Nick Ascroft:
“Unfamiliar until today, Hana Pera Aoake’s book wowed me in the shop and I had to shoplift it. This is an adroit miscellany, and unlike other kaleidoscopically experimental books from Compound Press, it is clear speaking and easy to follow. I feel like a tourist on an open-top bus with a kindly guide trying not to talk down to me. Personal and educational. All you could want.”
From ‘Act V’
When I saw my grandmother naked for the first time I felt ashamed.
Ashamed because she was so helpless
as her skin retreated from her bones.
She needed help
out of the shower
and
all I could think was
her body
was
my body.
Photo credit Ebony Lamb, 2022.
