Toys / Tricks / Traps Publisher / Martin Lane Design Dr Jolene Rickard

Dr Jolene Rickard

contemporary art

She doesn't want to live in the trees

The book is a tribute to this truly remarkable woman

the astonishing work of post-War artists in Latin America and the women artists defining art in the 2020s

Toys / Tricks / Traps Publisher / Martin Lane Design Dr Jolene RickardIn Christopher Reid's marvellous collection, a schoolboy furtively and thrillingly drops a marble through the top of his desk so that it makes its way in darkness along a complicated chute of books, rulers and rubbish, only to emerge from a hole in the base and be caught deftly in his other hand. The poem is titled 'Homeric' and might serve as a clue to the mood and construction of the collection in general, where the poet, now in his seventies, seeks