The Orphic Principle: Comments on a Poem

Jon Fry, a student studying The Secret, recently asked me about the poem ‘The Orphic Principle.’ I started writing ‘The Orphic Principle’ when I was working with an experimental performance poetry group led by the poet David Hart. Encouraged to share poetry in languages other than English with the group , I turned to a [...]

New reviews of Conquest in Planet, Magma, Orbis and The Midwest Review of Books

New reviews of Conquest have just come out in Planet: The Welsh Internationalist (209), Magma (54), and Orbis (159). David Lloyd writes for Planet that "Brigley refuses simplification and cliche while probing 'the alchemy of colony cells' [...] Her poems are assured and densely packed, the language satisfying in its discursive rhythmic and sonic movements."  Helen Mort in Magma [...]