A review by repeatbeatpoet
Improvised Explosive Device by Arji Manuelpillai

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny informative tense fast-paced

4.0

this is a serious, persistently human, and properly grounded poetry collection exploring extremism, hate crime, violence, and the affect of terrorism on the mass world, and the individual experience. It's gritty, gallows-humour funny, but utterly beautiful in the way it values humanity.

Pair with 'Four Lions' and Riz Ahmed's Englandistan, Muneera Pilgrim's poetry.

Fave poems - 
Portrait Of A Man In A Suicide Vest
Rapid Eye Movement
Methods Of Fitting In
Way Back
If You Don't Like It, Leave
This Is Not An IED (after Danez Smith)