coal by Remi Graves Karen Solie a notebook lay at the

a notebook lay at the end of his bed

Pared-back imagery and lyric purpose are embodied here throughout in the work of a poet who agrees with Ekbert Faas’s comment: ‘as soon as you have a new syntax

these poems are forays of discovery and resistance

It is a question of what to hang onto when the floor dissolves beneath you

You’ll need an umbrella for this

coal by Remi Graves Karen Solie a notebook lay at thePublished 15th July 2025. Blackfriars Bridge, 1905. A Black Cherokee man is arrested and charged as a wandering lunatic. In the City of London asylum, he is photographed; looking directly at the camera, he insists and refuses. He dies in the asylum one year later. In the absence of Paul Downing's own account, Remi Graves writes from and into the trans archive, presenting a sequence of poems and experiments mapping resonances between selves across