Adopting woodshedding-a jazz term for arduous, solitary rehearsal-as her writing practice, Venart has honed both her craft and a seeing heart.
Whatever their subject-the unwinding of lovers, childhood as the foundation of being, the metaphorical life of everyday objects and events-S.E. Venart's poems show us a kind of courage that is quotidian. Surviving childhood, surviving failed love, finding solace in the self, and reinvigorating that self: this is the world Venart reveals to us, in all its prescient detail. An honest and lyrical first book.
