The Release by Jeremy Hooker
PBS Wildcard Spring 2022 Claudine Toutoungi McFarlane’s poems are beautifully crafted

McFarlane’s poems are beautifully crafted

evocative and eclectic

and there is more for us to gain

’- Caleb Femi

its image of the mind

The Release by Jeremy Hooker <br> <b> PBS Wildcard Spring 2022</b> Claudine Toutoungi McFarlane’s poems are beautifully craftedSince Welsh Journal (2001), I have periodically adopted a form of writing that juxtaposes prose and poetry. The Release is a work of this kind, in which diary entries and poems are combined and interact. Roughly speaking, the diary records experience that generates the poems, or, to use another metaphor, the poems disclose their roots in the prose. Between June 2019 and August 2020, I spent four long periods in hospital, initially in Prince Charles