girlhoof is acid-pink monstrosity taking a tour through bodies and disembodiment. Trying on the subject positions of animals, ghosts and crowds, Flo Reynolds asks how objectification might be subverted through mischief as method. These poems hold girlhood and its discontents in all their strangeness and rage, with both tenderness and a knowing wink.

These hungry, hopeful poems are questing for their new and necessary forms. Following the beauties of sound and sense, Flo Reynolds makes new shapes, new words, new meanings in the push to describe what’s real, what’s really felt. These are lyrics for anyone bewitched by the world and wanting to cast their own spells on it. - Harry Josephine Giles

Brilliant. Inventive. Ingenious. With humour and delicacy, Flo Reynolds reacquaints us with the body, viewing its ruptures, excrescences, flora, fauna and squidgy bits from weird and illuminating angles. An adventure in material, girlhoof is a humbling read and utterly delightful. - Cat Woodward

26pp