Year of the Rat by Charles G. Lauder Jr. Mica Press This collection unfolds the journey

This collection unfolds the journey of an older

The Rohingya people continue to experience genocide at the hands of the Myanmar military

inspirational poet

These are not niche poems

startling us with their re-imaginings and verbal dissections

Year of the Rat by Charles G. Lauder Jr. Mica Press This collection unfolds the journeyAn intelligent, insightful exploration of this human life and its connection to the natural world. Family is centred, as the poet presents a universe in which everything is connected, or is striving to connect: .. I studied the tracks everyone was on moving towards each other crashing into one anothers life or just missing (Blank Canvas) Animals are everywhere from the eponymous rat and their offspring (The Year of the Rat) to domestic pets: the days