Praise for The Islands of Chile

Melancholia and tangible absence are threaded through these absorbing and delicate poems in which the Chilean islands are lovingly catalogued and characterised by Nash and even given voice – a voice which erupts from the haunted shorelines and archipelagos with a deft and surprising lyric power.

Richard Scott

This is ecologically minded work, exquisitely tuned to the world’s conditional fragility and ablaze with its own truths and a fierce eros in which ‘to be touched / is to be proven.’ The Islands of Chile is a dazzling, curious, and indefinably brilliant debut. Read it and come alive.

Sarah Westcott

Using a variety of experimental approaches and with a singular originality, David Nash constructs a compelling debut publication that grows in power through each section. Nash doesn’t merely inhabit the islands of Chile; they inhabit him. This pamphlet is more than ‘promising’, conveying the accomplishment of a first book. More please.

Eva Salzman

About The Islands of Chile

We’re thrilled to publish The Islands of Chile, a pamphlet of poems from Irish-born, Chile-based poet David Nash.

The pamphlet is a collection of poems that tries to reimagine islands in the context of queer love, each poem/island singing to the mainland as they track the course of a relationship. These islands watch and long for connection, their isolation forming deep wells of emotion within them, as they often catalogue their given names and location.

David has been published in Issue 5 of our anthology with his poem “Blueballs”, as well as The White Review, Pilot Press’s Queer Poetry anthology, The Stinging Fly, and the Dedalus Press anthology Local Wonders.

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