Lucian Mattison’s poetry collection, Reaper’s Milonga, is one that holds Lorca’s notion of duende at its core. The reader travels from places, both real and imagined, with the cloaked figure of Death as her guide. Poems range in subject matter, touching on politics, music, love, art, and cultural identity, all with vulnerability, mortality, and sensuality as the pistons driving the whole. 

Longlist, Julie Suk Award, 2018

Cover Art: Pattern Design by Darlin & Co

Interior Art: Matthew Boyle

Paperback, 71 pages