Hoof Mael Renouard in his first collection of

in his first collection of genre-defying verse

L'Esprit Nouveau

to incarceration in an asylum and finally to the life of a recluse in Mexico City

her trip ended four years later in Paris

Until then she's travelling

Hoof Mael Renouard in his first collection ofHoof by Kerrin P. Sharpe arrives with new urgency and longing. These are poems about a father who can only remember one word, ponies that grow hooves of basalt as they pull Scott and Shackelton around Otamahua in sledges, and a woman named Johanna living in a small village in Greenland. She writes about the strange places that watch over our parents, and the delicate but brutal mechanics of surgery. Famous people appear here too: Leonard Cohen, Ted