The Grid by Eli Payne Mandel Helen Ivory she makes a miscellany of

she makes a miscellany of different forms: prose poems

in poetic resources

sometimes dazzling

about the nature of language

' (Michael Glover)The poetry is distinguished by deep feeling conveyed with visual precision

The Grid by Eli Payne Mandel Helen Ivory she makes a miscellany ofThe Grid is about the end of worlds, ancient and modern. In three sequences of poems interspersed with Mandel's own translations from classical texts, figures of obsession and loneliness try to decrypt what Maurice Blanchot called 'the writing of the disaster'. Like a detective novel, the title sequence pieces together archival fragments into a lyric essay about Alice Kober, the half forgotten scholar behind the decipherment of the ancient writing