Paul Maravillas Jerusalem, In Between Tongues Wilkinson’s poetry teases and provokes

Wilkinson’s poetry teases and provokes the reader to join her in a deeply rich affective and critical adventure into the 'Impossible'

makes the image of the last two lines so startling: “silence” this “strange animal” brought so lovingly back from the grave

Skilbeck-Porter’s work immerses the reader in a sensory experience that delights the eye and the mind

intelligent

Paul Maravillas Jerusalem, In Between Tongues Wilkinson’s poetry teases and provokesIn Between Tongues by Paul Maravillas Jerusalem, the tongue is both muscle and metaphor, an implement of desire and an instrument of language. Reckoning with the archipelagic Philippines and the island nation of Singapore, with the past and the present, with origin and destination, the poet negotiates the boundaries between the two through a perpetual act of code switching, gaining mastery in sleep (awed, that I had spoken my language fluently) or in