Ottessa Moshefgh

Sep 20, 2024 | bellacaledonia.org.uk | Deborah Levy |Déborah Levy |Marie Darrieussecq |Ottessa Moshefgh

Quick Fire – a slender but densely-packed volume of 23 poems over 58 pages – begins (as its title demands) with fire (the National Museum of Brazil fire of 2018) and ends with the poet’s ‘I’, awoken by gunshots in Medellín, Columbia and “listening for echo and fire”. In between, Ayachi roams her home city of Edinburgh and points afar – a small library of Rough Guide-worthy destinations get a mention from Beirut to San Fransisco, St Ives to Toulouse and Panama City.