The Vulture by Gerard Woodward Jorie Graham Tan Raptures is a series

Tan Raptures is a series of verse-missives from the frontline of the war against the poor and its spirit-stripping weapons of food banks

For Capildeo the answers formed at their own pace

 Boston Review

and Swinburne himself ‘the libidinous laureate of a pack of satyrs’

The Vulture by Gerard Woodward Jorie Graham Tan Raptures is a seriesThe vulture, the presiding genius of Gerard Woodwards collection, is at once sympathetic and awful, intimate and other. Woodward naturally positions himself at uncomfortable borders and thresholds, and in doing so alerts us to the flimsiness of the conceits of home, of family and human culture. Many poets have challenged our lazy habit of addressing nature though the pathetic fallacy; few have had the nerve to consciously embrace it as a subversive