Now You Can Look by Julia Bird Omikemi Natacha Bryan Gallas’s Comedy is a metaphysical

Gallas’s Comedy is a metaphysical plunge through torment and triumph

but also Europe's high literary culture

’ – Ian Pople

until finally Bird edges us out of danger

Now You Can Look by Julia Bird Omikemi Natacha Bryan Gallas’s Comedy is a metaphysicalLike an oil painting, Now You Can Look is a work built up of layers. The colourful subject of its narrative is a woman who takes one glance at what the early twentieth century has set out for her, and throws in her lot with art instead. On the surface, Julia Bird's poems are beautifully textured, conjuring a life rich with 'whispering pelts' in theatre cloakrooms, a yellow kimono with its hem 'like cut butter from an icebox', and the intricacies of an