I’m pleased to share a new review of A Godless Ascends published today at Tweetspeak Poetry. Reviewer Glynn Young offers a thoughtful look at the book’s central tensions—faith, doubt, inheritance, and the long arc of becoming—and considers how the collection’s lyric voice moves through those questions with clarity and grit. You can read the full review here.

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It was such a pleasure to read the review. Here’s an excerpt:

“Hopkinson frames the collection in a running theme of ascent. She’s moving from turmoil to resolution, if not relief. But you don’t yet see the resolution. As you read you sense the collection is building toward something. It may not be some grand understanding or profound revelation or fundamental disclosure, but you know something is coming.”

Read the complete review here.

You can order A Godless Ascends:

• Direct from Lithic Press (free shipping);
• or if you’d like a signed copy with a bookmark, contact me here.

“Like the screech owl, Trish Hopkinson’s work hardens itself in order to keep its insides soft. There’s a Plathian urgency to these poems, reminding us that memory has taste buds, ancestry is complicated and life, like poetry, is grounded in physicality.” –Wendy Videlock, author of Wise to the West

Sample poems:

• Nocturne to Uterus – The Gravity of the Thing
• Uprooted – Cultural Daily, finalist for the 2021 Jack Grape Poetry Prize
• Dragonfly Daughter – Literary Mama (+Pushcart prize nomination)
• Resurrection Party – Voicemail Poems

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