A thrilling and powerful debut. In Terror, Toby Martinez de las Rivas
leads us on a high-wire act of verbal dexterity and inventive syntax in
pursuit of a new kind of communication. Set against landscapes fallen
just short of paradise, but which retain the possibility of redemption,
these poems work intimately with the reader, interrogating us and
encouraging us never to settle for inadequate answers. Formally
adventurous and wide-ranging, Terror examines ideas of conflict,
betrayal, sexual and divine love, history and hope, and holds each up to
the light of our own fate and frailty, in search of a language which
might console us, a language with which we might commune in our most
private and fearful moments.