Chris Banks is a poet who always keeps me on my toes. I value his close reading, so this review of NMLCT will be one that I treasure for a long time.
"Honestly, I have not really read a poetry collection like this one. It’s a highly original book.... These spellbinding poems, at once allusive and engaging, are portents, wards against the artificial intelligence and misinformation we find so much of our modern lives are now mired in, but they are also, I think, signposts, maps for finding our way back out, through words, to our genuine selves...
"There is rigour and tension in these 16 line, formally-constrained poems, but also a sharp, restless and original consciousness that is the nucleus of this whole poetry collection. NMLCT encourages us to make new thoughts, new connections, new poems amidst the old abandoned computer code and made-to-sell cheap design work, amidst “the glitches” of background machine noise."
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