Deliciously all over the place

So says Joseph Goosey of Mairéad Byrne's The Best Of (What’s Left Of) Heaven, a smelly potpourri of poems. Byrne's work is distinguished by the way she experiments with space, opines Goosey in the Rumpus:

Space, both the absence and a presence of it, appears to be the main concern Heaven. In individual poems, small series of interconnected poems, and in the book as object, Byrne has made a map that covers every kind of topographical feature. There are pieces in the book that are little else but space, such as “Audience” which consists of (spoiler) eleven dots thrown on to the page which seem to be in a size eight font.

As well as form:

Her sense of awareness for what works perfectly and where is explained in a hilarious way in “GREAT BUSINESS IDEA #9: TEST-YOUR-POETRY” which shows up on the page looking like a flyer in above a urinal.

And also texture - Goosey wants to "pet, be cut by, and maybe even eat the work of Mairéad Byrne." Hm. He also titles his review "Body Odor Can Be a Room," so enter at your own olfactory risk.