Sleep for Dessert

<p>Through the looking glass you'll find the witty and whimsical poems in Olivia Elektra Willson-Piper's <em>Sleep for Dessert</em>. Here Alice wanders a gritty wonderland of concrete pigeons and streetside café tables where the line between machine and animal blurs into the same clattering birdsong: Chaffinch and chainsaw / jackdaws and hammers / common crane- / feathers on the façade. With carnivalesque imagery and clever wordplay the poet weaves a compelling journey through a winding dreamscape. There is curiosity and love melancholy and fear the strange and the familiar; but most of all there is the desire to leave home and the desire to find it again. These dreamlike poems are pinholes on a map where light leaks through.</p>