The Danforth Review

The poetry in Margaret Christakos’s What Stirs is pre-apocalyptic. This is the poetry that is written just before Atwood’s Oryx and Crake, Bradbury’s Farenheight 401, or Huxley’s Brave New World become reality.

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I have no idea I mean you focused
I mean no idea I have you focused
to my gosh

In Toronto writer Margaret Christakos' sixth poetry collection and seventh book, What Stirs, she works again in her recombinative ways, working her own twists and re-imaginings to make newer from what she has already made new.

Thought to be transference, poet RM Vaughan opens himself to long for his psychiatrist. The doctor reciprocates. What unfolds in the situation, and Vaughan's poetic account thereof, Troubled, is a heart-wrenching and career-hindering abuse of power. Troubled marries Vaughan's rightful feelings of vengeance with those of a decade-later's forgiveness and will to move forward.