Review by Selma Carvalho

Issue no 16

Poetry in many ways is an unforgiving literary form; it refuses to resonate if it is not confessional. Novelist and short story writers can bleed ink borrowing other people’s lives, but the poet has to bare their own, make it available to us, the reader, and in this Fernandes excels; she is intimately accessible, her conversational style is not clouded by obscure references…