‘Invisible Wasp’ flies

‘exalting daily life passions.’

Emilie Collyer launched Stephanie Powell’s wonderful new collection ‘Invisible Wasp’ at the Spark! Poetry Festival.

Reading Invisible Wasp is like spending time with your cool friend who helps you navigate life’s strangeness. Stephanie Powell creates a slippery intimacy, a kind of everyday erotic, with extraordinary skill. Poems hover in the interstices between body and world, reminding us of what is both powerfully animal and achingly fragile about our being. I keep returning to this shimmering collection and every time I find something new.    Emilie Collyer