Impossible Heat by Ciara Maguire ageing ‘the only stone in which

‘the only stone in which the flaws are prized’

In a beautifully varied series of formal poems

and the altering effect such events have on the living

written in a frenzy of poetic inspiration

Impossible Heat by Ciara Maguire ageing ‘the only stone in which'these basements that taught me to breathe; my body happening in the space between moonlight & the leather straps wrapped round an old dykes wrist gender split open like a crass piata on the sticky floor' Ciara Maguires poems explore the bright fields and dark corners of love. They are heartbreaking, sexy and addictive. Impossible Heat is a work of claustrophobia, heat, and longing. Sexual ideation extends from the mind of the speaker to colour and