A review by octavia_cade
Hatch: Poems by Jenny Irish

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

I love this! It's the most interesting poetry collection I've read in ages: prose poems about an apocalyptic future, and the poems coalesce along three strands. First is a sentient artificial submarine womb (exactly as strange as it sounds), second is the extinction of different species, and third is the history of women's reproductive healthcare. The whole is very quietly brutal, a meditation on a world where the ability to reproduce is nearly entirely destroyed, and then rebuilt in odd and transformative ways. 

I'm already slated to write a review of this for one magazine, but I can see myself coming back to it again and again, especially for academic work. There are some fascinating comparisons to be made with other examples of speculative fiction...