Palm-Lined with PotiencePalm Lined with Potience is New York City poet and visual artist Basie Allens debut collection of poems. Basies work is by turns political and lyrical, charting both physical and emotional landscapes, making maps of paintings and paintings of maps. While rooted in Pro Black theory, art, and precise description, Basie makes space in the ekphrastic for the eerie and abstract. The poems in this collection search for nodes of truth in a tumultuous sea of

The front cover painting is by Moroccan painter and novelist Mahi Binebine

George Ewart Evans

Was she dead

The voices that address us along the way are dignified and unforgettable: there are no victims ('let everyone / on the ferry at Port-aux-Basques / know I've had seven good years')

pains and horrors of alcohol – all of which can be downed like (and perhaps with) a glass of vodka

Olesia Nikolaeva

flatness and depth

Sean O’Brien

At the time

and their political discussions

Delores is losing parts of herself

In 2011 Nancy Charley spent six weeks in a little blue beach hut on Tankerton Slopes