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.”

—Emily Perez, Author of What Flies Want (Winner of the Iowa Prize), House of Sugar, House of Stone, Backyard Migration Route, and more.
Click here to read the full review of Weren’t We Natural Swimmers by Emily Perez’ in RHINO Reviews Summer 2023 Issue

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“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!”

—George Abraham, Author of Birthright
Click Here for this microreview of Weren’t We Natural Swimmers and more by George Abraham in Triquarterly for The Sealey Challenge

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