Who is Mary Sue? by Sophie Collins PBS Choice Spring 2018 Hera Lindsay Bird and all this is achieved

and all this is achieved with crystalline brevity

my best was perhaps the reference to ‘a stomach filled with cage birds’

She is a master of the major Somali poetic forms

this is a fine collection from a poet at the top of his game

Who is Mary Sue? by Sophie Collins <b> PBS Choice Spring 2018 </b> Hera Lindsay Bird and all this is achievedIn the language of fan fiction, a Mary Sue is an idealised and implausibly flawless character: a female archetype that can infuriate audiences for its perceived narcissism. Such is the setting for this important debut by Sophie Collins. In a series of verse and prose collages, Who Is Mary Sue? exposes the presumptive politics behind writing and readership: the notion that men invent while women reflect; that a man writes of the world outside while a