Poetry. In her remarkable first collection, Ivy Alvarez's MORTAL examines the relationship between Dee and Seph -- modern-day reinventions of Demeter and Persephone -- and how the specter of breast cancer affects them. 'Mortal' spans years and personalities, giving voice to mother and daughter in poems that are both visceral ("they had to unzip me / to let the cat / out of the bag // blood bathed my belly") and quietly elegant ("how do I hold you / I wonder, as I'm holding you").

Mortal

Literature & Fiction

Alvarez, Ivy

Poetry

Red Morning Press

DIASPORA VOLUME L by Ivy Alvarez is part of a multivolume work of 19 letters based on the Filipino alphabet. Innovative in scope and approach, the series engages Filipino idioms, cycling through the free verse poem, and prose poem forms. Ivy Alvarez is a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee, New Zealand Poetry Society's editor for a fine line magazine, and an international editor for the first NZ/Aotearoa edition of Atlanta Review. Born in the Philippines, Ivy Alvarez grew up in Tasmania, Australia. Having lived in Scotland and the Republic of Ireland, she lived almost ten years in Cardiff, Wales, before arriving in Auckland, New Zealand in 2014.

Diaspora Volume L

Paloma Press

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Mortal

Diaspora Volume L