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‘Belling the vast dark’

Two cartographic collections
by
August 2025, no. 478

Bathypelagia by Debbie Lim

Cordite Books, $20 pb, 66 pp

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Re:Vision by Isi Unikowski

Puncher & Wattmann, $27 pb, 94 pp

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‘Belling the vast dark’

Two cartographic collections
by
August 2025, no. 478

The poems of Bathypelagia by Debbie Lim and Re:Vision by Isi Unikowski are poems of cartography; they map the unknown and probe the world with human curiosity, tracing meaning onto elusive places, feelings, and encounters, solidifying these through the writing process. Both collections conspire to understand the world as they construct their realities one line at a time, the poems themselves moving – in the former’s case, vertically from the deep sea, and, in the latter’s case, through the casting of light, the revealing of landscapes.

Bathypelagia

Bathypelagia

by Debbie Lim

Cordite Books, $20 pb, 66 pp

Buy this book
Re:Vision

Re:Vision

by Isi Unikowski

Puncher & Wattmann, $27 pb, 94 pp

ABR receives a commission on items purchased through this link. All ABR reviews are fully independent.

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