Publisher: Headmistress Press
Paperpack, 44 pages
Publication date: January 4, 2021
 
Mournful and flawless, bereaved and elegant, these breathtaking poems bend low like five widowed giraffes teaching themselves how to go under the limbo bar of grief for the first time.
— Vi Khi Nao, judge of the Charlotte Mew Prize
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The poems of Demoted Planet do what I’ve come to expect from all the poetry of Katherine Fallon: through fantastic imagery, courage, and a touch of humor, they remind us that even the worst of our experiences can be reshaped into something better.
— Michael Meyerhofer, author of Ragged Eden
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These elegiac poems brim over with the aching, often dissonant gaps of memory between the person who raises us and the fragile being they become; the man behind the camera and his ailing body on display.
— Nicole Steinberg, author of Glass Actress