The Gravity Wave by Peter Sirr
PBS Autumn Recommendation 2019 Jennifer Lee Tsai • Vahni Capildeo goes to

• Vahni Capildeo goes to Hell – and back

between the present moment and what might have been happening several hours ago in the Middle East

ambitious poems bring the past to life

or the fragments which have survived of it

The Gravity Wave by Peter Sirr <br><b>PBS Autumn Recommendation 2019</b> Jennifer Lee Tsai • Vahni Capildeo goes toPeter Sirr draws on the classics Homer, Catullus, Sappho to ask if we, in comparison, live in a disenchanted world: Diminished? Really? Gods dont hold us, the temples wither, the priests are all in sales but the sun still shines, the oxen low and the winedark sea is still as dark as wine. He acknowledges world traumas the Final Solution, Shahad, Rawan, Maram this hand in the rubble these broken shutters shrapnel on the bed cover while risking, as