This beautiful little chapbook from the incomparable Annick MacAskill is the kind of feminist revisioning that comes straight out of Gap Riot’s dreams. This collection is five tall, gorgeous feats of poetic prowess where MacAskill writes from the perspective of female figures from Ovid’s Metamorphoses. The poems consider sex, gender, desire, and sexual violence in Ovid and beyond, and each poem works to animate and amplify voices that, as the author notes, “say little to nothing in the original text.” Each poem begins with an epigraph from the Metamorphoses with the author’s original translation and then it starts running down these long pages it’s become some wild animal. These poems are from a larger project, hem, and we cannot wait to see the whole thing!

Printed all tall and beautiful and textured and in a limited run of fifty copies at Product Photo in Toronto, this chapbook and all translations of Ovid are by Annick MacAskill. It was typeset by Dani Spinosa who also did the cover design.