Ortileus's Sea Monsters by Stephanie Green Penned in the Margins The white spaces

The white spaces

and is an attempt to tell the story of this last tumultuous year

Innovative poetic forms mirror the nonlinear experiences of trauma survivors

‘The pleasure I have gained from new Scottish genius William Letford’s poems

In this tensile and delicately stranded poetry of survival

Ortileus's Sea Monsters by Stephanie Green Penned in the Margins The white spacesOrtelius' Sea Monsters by Stephanie Green is the winner of the Alastair Reid pamphlet prize, 2023 (Wigtown Festival). The poems explore a wide range of trauma inspired by various mythological sea monsters depicted on Ortelius' 1590 map of Iceland and surrounding seas. Ortelius Sea Monsters is outstanding I relished each encounter This is a work which is a triumph both for the writers imagination and their wide and surprising range of poetic skills.