PLUS ULTRA by Fletcher, Sarah

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Author: Fletcher, SarahPoetryPublished on 20 April 2023 by Profile Books Ltd in the United Kingdom.Paperback | 88 pages, n/a130 x 196 x 11 | 116g
High-concept, formally daring, and sonically rich [] What a tremendous gift to readers to witness a poetics balanced so deftly between intellect and instinct. Kayo Chingonyi In myth, the Pillars of Hercules near the Straits of Gibraltar mark the edge of what was then the known world, with the warning Ne plus ultra No more beyond. Beyond power, beyond the sublime, beyond love, PLUS ULTRA begins where other poetry gives up.Sarah Fletchers dazzling debut collection pushes at the world, reaching towards the beyond of its title poem to explore questions of power, romance, pain and the sublime. These poems challenge, play and press, but also carry an anxiety around borders: what is beyond? What happens when you reach the boundary and keep going?With a sharp, Plathian interrogative voice Fletchers poems prowl the bars and night-haunts of Madrid and London, and in rich, mythic language plumb the below-places where discoveries are made, drowned, and left behind.