Westerly reviews Public. Open. Space.

Huge thanks to Ellie Fisher, whose review of Public. Open. Space. was published by Westerly Magazine this week.

‘Kate Larsen’s Public. Open. Space. is a conversation as much as it is a poetry collection,’ Ellie writes. ‘Through a series of hybrid lyric narratives over the course of the work, discussions are opened between writer and reader: on political power, on personal control, and on the ways in which these forms of restraint might—and can be—resisted.’

‘Public. Open. Space. remains stubbornly physical, paper and ink. Yet Larsen’s poetics—and politics—span the gap between the tangible and digital worlds in a way that embodies the inherent strangeness of the glitch. In so doing, her collection manages to resist many of the traps writing about the internet can entail. It flickers in and out of itself like a line of corrupted computer code; a nervous, electric rhythm.’

Read more on the Westerly website.

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