Microbursts Jo Colley in Brookes’s bestiary

in Brookes’s bestiary

between then and now… And poetry has always gone out to these boundaries

Dima Wannous

From dolls and sherbet lemons

or where their real allegiances lie

Microbursts Jo Colley in Brookes’s bestiarymicrobursts is a collection of hybrid, lyric essays about the places between life and death; memoir and poetry; making and letting go. Originally written by Reeder as an intense text based collection of lyric and experimental essays responding to the illnesses and deaths of her parents, it confronts the raw emotions of crisis, grief and creativity. Through collaboration with Thomson, the project expanded to consider how design and visual intervention