Earwig Country by Angela Topping Robert Graves Poemhood will simultaneously highlight the

Poemhood will simultaneously highlight the duality and nuance at the crux of so many Black experiences with poetry being the psalm constantly playing

particularly Beethoven and Olivier Messiaen

a long poem in the modernist tradition

With strong command and delicate invitation

Earwig Country by Angela Topping Robert Graves Poemhood will simultaneously highlight the"Beautiful things have inner horrors I learned to be wary of." This collection balances darkness with light: the beauty of the flower, the earwig within. Themes of mental health and memory are played out against the superstition that earwigs can burrow in through the ear and eat the brain. The German word ohrworm means earworm: something replaying in the mind. Another theme is the mortality of the human body. Nature struggles, yet its beauty still