Cirrus@Austlit

'A fierce social activist and feminist, her life both tragic and seemingly enlightened, Wickham boasts a body of work that reveals to us hundreds of glass shards that magnify and reflect the internal life of women and the existential grief of humanity. In "Reverie," however, our speaker breaks from such formal structures and challenges the very notion of poetic form by challenging the status quo for female poets and artists through enjambment and a loose, flowing rhyme structure. Having come out on the other side of Wickham's work feeling more certain that being a grown woman means experiencing loss and uncertainty, I appreciate her inclination toward a work ethic that fills the space from which the things we love eventually and always escape.'  (Publication abstract)