QuickFire, Slow Burning by Janette Ayachi Abigail Parry Absence is a recurrent bassline

Absence is a recurrent bassline underscoring Atta’s narratives

Grief-stricken

Immaculately considered and assembled with all the precision and intricacy of a five star meal

subversive

” —Chris Wallace-Crabbe

QuickFire, Slow Burning by Janette Ayachi Abigail Parry Absence is a recurrent basslineJanette Ayachis second collection moves away from the personal and delves into the universal with poems often taking flight from the page to parachute into performance. Her hypnotic voice lifts from a keen observing stance to one that probes the chemical reactions in nature, and especially in the body. Fire is seen as an element; as something environmental, a natural disaster. But Ayachi also plays with fire as a fuel in relationships; a heat felt and