Recent Writings About Weren’t We Natural Swimmers:
“…Tigh does not shy from the damage that the human world enacts, able to hold bitterness alongside beauty in this musical, darkly yearning collection….Tigh sees disaster clearly and yet hopes otherwise, their vision capacious enough to hold it all.”
“Confronting entangled climate catastrophe (‘Maybe we plant them… ladder a child climbs to escape the sea’) & US imperialism (‘the God of War is sitting in the desk behind me’), Tigh’s Queer Iranian ecopoems insist on finding love despite impossible times: ‘tell me you want to love me / in the round darkness / of midnight.’ Among my favorite 2022 releases!”
