The Selkie Robert Lax and exposes the underbelly of

and exposes the underbelly of our own biases-the ways in which they manifest in everyday language and collective consciousness

Set among blue Ozark creeks

often revealing the gaps in understanding that tangle this string of vignettes

and the physical and economic inequalities of modern planetary life

who deserts him at the peak of infatuation

The Selkie Robert Lax and exposes the underbelly ofMorgan V Morgan V's fascinating and highly original debut, The Selkie, is organized into three linked sections: animated by jokes, confusion, existential horror and banality, often revealing the gaps in understanding that tangle this string of vignettes. In an outdoor market, we meet an unlikely hero in The Monger, buying and selling fish from his stall while the poems around him touch on topics of racial capitalism, cultural ties to animals and food,