Elegy [Model Interaction Trend]” is the coruscating, inimitable debut poetry pamphlet from Charlie McIlwain. An astonishing palimpsest of quotes, samples and deconstructed syntax, this is a poetic sequence which holds (radical, queer) ethical witness to modern brutality.

“Charlie McIlwain’s Elegy is a thought-provoking reflection on memory, loss, and (absent) confession. Repeated breaks in sense and syntax mirror the inability of memory to capture charged events with clarity. McIlwain looks back on that which evades representation and offers us his reflections “in chalk”. To speak in chalk also implies the production of word and sound particles that remain on the sleeves, in the air, taken into the lungs. After reading McIlwain’s Elegy, you will carry some of its lingering chalk dust away with you.” – William Keohane