Rachael Allen & Lucy Mercer: God Complex/Emblem
Tuesday 30 January 2024, 7 p.m. · 52 minutes![](https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/300_filter/images/1/0/4/1/4171401-3-eng-GB/allen%20mercer%20pod.jpg 300w, https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/400_filter/images/1/0/4/1/4171401-3-eng-GB/allen%20mercer%20pod.jpg 400w, https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/800_filter/images/1/0/4/1/4171401-3-eng-GB/allen%20mercer%20pod.jpg 800w, https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/1200_filter/images/1/0/4/1/4171401-3-eng-GB/allen%20mercer%20pod.jpg 1200w)
‘Here is a wasteland / of parched aesthetics / patched up with modern tubes’ – Rachael Allen’s long-awaited second collection, God Complex, is a long narrative poem describing the breakdown of a relationship against a backdrop of environmental degradation and toxicity. She read from the collection, and was in conversation with the poet Lucy Mercer, whose first collection is Emblem (Prototype, 2022).
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